Swami Sivananda Quotes

The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.