All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Everything is expression of our own intelligence. Through simple, innocent, natural unbounded awareness-fullness of Self, all is accomplished… Only we should not be influenced by the winds.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others… All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.