Chinmayananda Saraswati quotes - page 4

The highest form of grace is silence. (Chinmayananda Saraswati)
More important than What is Behind you and what is Ahead of you is what is In you. Seek it. Centred in it, act and live. View quote
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Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life. View quote
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A man-of-wisdom lives in the world, but he is never of the world. View quote
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There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future. View quote
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Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarreled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels. View quote
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Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice - You shall have a firm and noble character. View quote
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The average man looks up at night And sees thousands and thousands, of twinkling stars, Each different from the others. But a man of wisdom and achievement, Perceives the one light, Behind the dark dome of the night-sky, Whose incandescence peeps at us, Through all the holes in the night-dome!! View quote
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In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase. View quote
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Plan out your work Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste. The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion. View quote
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Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin. (Chinmayananda Saraswati)
Divinity should not be given to you from somewhere else. The Upanishad thunders "Thou Art That. View quote
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Whatever the man of realization is the moral code for us to follow. The qualities of his actions are the standards by which the world determines its sense of justice, the concept of Dharma. View quote
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Appreciating the mind as `ALL SILENCE'. `I AM' is meditation. View quote
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Every body dies, nobody dies. View quote
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To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own. View quote
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To define God is to defile God. View quote
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Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance. View quote
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There is nothing, at any time, in any circumstance, to worry over why this to me? View quote
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Sin is never in action, it is always in reaction. View quote
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To see the one in the many is the casual vision of knowledge. To see the many in the one is the mission wisdom. (Chinmayananda Saraswati)
Hindu culture is essentially based upon the sacrifice implied in duty, and not upon acquisition, which is implied in rights. View quote
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Mind at rest is the Temple of Joy. So long as it is gurgling with its desires, passions and attachments in its stormy surface, the signature of joy gets ruffled out. View quote
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Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there. View quote
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The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology. View quote
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