Swami Sivananda

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification. Knowing without thinking; merging finitude in infinity.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made up of your thoughts.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore acquire contentment.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.