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There is no need to create a silly sense of order by establishing your own principles, morality, or ethics. Existence is in perfect chaotic order.
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If you are in a state of reaction, anyone or anything can take charge of your life. Conscious response is the way forward.
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If Human beings experience Life beyond one's physical nature, the need for conquest, conflict, and violence shall not exist.
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You can become truly aware and enjoy every bit of life only if you are constantly aware that you are mortal
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Whoever you meet, speak to them like it is the last time you may have that opportunity. It will transform your life
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It is all right if the world thinks you are weird. Everyone is different, so everyone is weird in someone's eyes. Happily weird or miserably weird - your choice
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If you see that people are the way they are because of their limitations, you will strive to help them break their limitations, rather than judge them.
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No matter where you are or who you are, may you never be a prisoner of your own body, mind & emotions. May you know the power of liberating yourself through Yoga
Body-mind Yoga Spirituality Liberation
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Education should offer the joy of wondering about life, not give ready-made answers. Unfortunately, science is acquiring the qualities of Religion by moving towards Absolutism
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We are trying to set up a new normal: To be immensely capable and absolutely involved with life in every way, but untouched by the process of life
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"Aghori" means beyond terrible. An aghori wants to befriend what is abhorrent because they want to take away their likes and dislikes. Likes and dislikes are the basis of your limitations. Dropping likes and dislikes is the means of embracing the universe.
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Human beings need the entertainment to hide their madness. If they were perfectly sane, they could just sit and watch the Flower blossom.
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Whether you have anger, hatred, jealousy, or resentment against someone, essentially, it only works against you.
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Yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with the existence
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The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, melt and become part of the wind and the earth; become part of everything, as creation intends
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The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than within
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It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed which causes stress.
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We need to change the definition of "Real Men." It's not by hiding our emotions but by gaining mastery over them that we are empowered to look Life in the eye. This is what Yoga is - a tool that teaches you to play and yet remain unscathed by the game of Life
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There is no point in making yourself believe everything is going to be all right. In doing your Best, you can leave this world a better place.
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You think that you can change the world, or that you have the capacity to move yourself only with anger. Why? Why can't you move with love? Why can't you move with compassion?
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If your external situations are going out of control, is it not very important that at least you keep your interiority in control?
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Even if you become a super-human being, you will never have absolute control over the external world. Whether it is your institution or your family or the world, you will never have total control over the external situation.
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Usually, you are looking only at that person who is abused as a victim, but the person who is abusing is also a victim because in many ways he is degrading himself. The worst thing that any human being can do to himself is to degrade himself like an animal
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Unfortunately, for most people, fear, anger, hatred are the most intense situations in their lives. Their love is never so intense, their peace is never so intense, their joy is never so intense, but their negativities are intense.
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There is no need to be perfect, but are you a constant striving to be better. That is all that matters.
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People who are bursting with life do not need a purpose to live. Life is a purpose unto itself.
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Do not wait for problems to overwhelm you. Take action before problems come. Preemption is the Path to Safety and Success
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In a Democracy, we have the right to protest for sure, but we do not have the right to disrupt even one citizen's life.
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It takes a deep sense of commitment and compassion to nurse the sick. To make others' physical & mental wellbeing your priority is a different kind of Devotion.
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Sex in the body is fine. Money in the pocket is fine. They only become a problem if they enter your mind.
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Fear, anger, and hatred essentially come from a lack of perspective as to what life is all about.
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You must liberate your mind, not control it. It is acting crazy because it is entangled in petty things.
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The heavens that people have imagined are such lousy places that I would never want to go there.
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Make yourself in such a way that you are always looking at how to make someone else's life beautiful
Life Philosophy Compassion Spirituality
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You can use this mind either to create wellbeing or misery for yourself. Everyone has this choice.
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A human being who is joyful, responsible, with a little bit of sense, can deal with challenging situations much better than those who are dead serious about everything.
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If your gentle and loving nature are coming out of your inclusiveness, it is fantastic. But if it is a formula that you have learned to get what you want, it doesn't mean anything.
Wisdom Inclusiveness Spirituality
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If you are exuberant, joyful, and wonderful, your immune system will function much better than when you are worried. Wholeness of Life Is Health
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If someone is hurting and it does not hurt you at all, that means you have forsaken your humanity.
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The life in you is not looking for meaning; it needs exuberance of experience.
Life Short One liners Experience
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Right now, you believe that something or someone else is the source of your joy, so you are always at their mercy. If you realize and experientially know that you are the source of your joy, wouldn't you be joyous all the time?
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Do not aspire to meet a wonderful person. Aspire to become the wonderful person that you expect others to be
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Human beings have a high level of intelligence but have no training, no social situation where you're being taught how to use this intelligence, your own intelligence is turning against you. When your intelligence turns against you it looks so hopeless as if there is simply no way out of it, that is what leads to people committing suicide
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Most human beings have not been taught how to handle their own intelligence, if you had half the brain that you have, you would have no mental ailments
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Only if you have known intense action can you know inaction. People who are always resting in their life must be experts about rest, isn't it? But that is not the truth. Only a man who works intensely can know what rest is.
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Normally, everybody wants to rule the world. It is just that, because a man is halfhearted, he is only able to rule his wife. He does not get to rule the world, so all he is able to do is rule his children, wife, or something like that, but what he really wants is to rule the world. The fool doesn't have the capacity or the intensity to do it
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Do you want to rule the world or do you want to serve the world? Ultimately, that is the choice.
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[About Religious Clashes]Religion should have made people Divine, but it is not even making them human.
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Religion is an inward step, but if it is only about belonging to this group or that group, it is very unfortunate. That has only brought hatred, conflict, and separation among people.
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If you were perfectly sane, you would not need entertainment. You need entertainment just to cover your madness. If we take away your entertainment, you will go crazy. Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch the bamboo grow.
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Lust is a strong
need, love is not a need. When you love, you settle down, nothing
more is needed. You can just sit here for a lifetime. With lust you can't
sit anywhere, you either get into some mad action, or you are bound
to go crazy.
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Society has fixed some rules and they have always told you, right from your childhood, that if you break them, you are a bad boy. So whenever you break these, you feel like a bad boy. If you feel like one, you become one.
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You need not be a superhuman capable of doing everything. If you don't do what you're capable of doing, that's when it's not okay; that's when you have failed
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If you don't have a sense of involvement, you will always try to get the best deal out of somebody. That means you must meet the dumbest people in the world. Intelligent people will never bite your dumb deals.
Truth Witty Intelligence Involvement People
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If you really have the intention of bringing up your child well, you must first change your way of being. If you are incapable of transforming yourself, where is the question of you bringing up your child?
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How should you bring up a child? In whichever situation he is put, he should be able to live joyously, That is the way he should be brought up.
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The only thing that you can do to your child is to give him love and support; his intelligence will grow. That is all. Create a loving atmosphere for him where intelligence will naturally flower.
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Every child does have the necessary intelligence to live his life fully. You just create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence, rather than imposing your nonsense upon him.
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You want to live your life through your children. This is a sure way to destroy children. This is a definite way to destroy children.
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You want your child to become a doctor. Not because doctors are needed in the world, not because you care so much to relieve the suffering that you want your child to dedicate himself as a doctor, but simply because you have a stupid idea in your head that in the social structure, a doctor or an engineer means some kind of prestige
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The problem (with you) is that you want your child to be intelligent your way, not his. Your idea of intelligence is that your child should become a doctor. Maybe he would have made a wonderful carpenter
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The first thing to do when bringing up a child is not to touch your children, not to influence their minds with your distorted minds.
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Life is not always a straight line; you have to do many things to keep it going. If you forsake your understanding, your capability will be lost. Whether it's a question of personal relationships or professional management, in both places you need understanding; otherwise, you won't have fruitful relationships.
Life Relationship Understanding People
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In everyone, there are some positive aspects and some negative aspects. If you embrace all this in your understanding, you can make the relationship the way you want it. If you leave it to their understanding, it will become accidental. If they are very magnanimous, things will happen well for you; if not, the relationship will break up.
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If you are expecting the other one to understand and comply with you all the time while you don't understand the limitations, the possibilities, the needs and the capabilities of that person, then conflict is all that will happen
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Whatever action you perform in your life, there is a consequence to it. There is no such thing as you must perform only this type of action and you must not perform another type of action. You can do anything. But you must be in a state to accept the consequences joyously.
Life Wisdom Perspective Action
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When acceptance is total, the entire existence becomes a part of oneself. This is the way of nature.
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Acceptance is important to connect to a situation and to respond to the situation intelligently.
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Meditation means going back to one's original nature. When one is simply with this breath, all identifications dissolve.
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Modern medicines have become just chemistry. For every problem, you are taking in some medicine, a chemical, & come to some kind of balance. If you use one chemical to bring down one aspect or enhance another, there is also a side effect to this. For this side effect, there is an antidote; for the antidote, there is another antidote; it's an endless chain
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If we are free of diseases medically, that is not health. If we feel like a complete human being in our body, mind, and spirit, that is when we are really healthy.
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Right now, medical sciences are limited to just knowing the physical body. If anything happens beyond that, you think it's a miracle.
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Most intelligent people on this planet are generally the most miserable people on the planet. Simply because they have an active intelligence but no perception of life
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The basic purpose of life and the basic purpose of education is to enhance one's boundaries of perception. I don't want the children to just survive after ten years of schooling. They must blossom and flower wherever they go.
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Education is about expanding the horizons of human experience and becoming inclusive. Only in a state of inclusiveness can the empowerment of education become a bounty all of us may cherish.
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Education is not about loading the child's mind with information, but about making the child's mind capable of razor-sharp perception, capable of knowing life in its full depth and dimension
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Education is about making the child grow with uncluttered intelligence. An intelligence that is not identified and entangled in religion, doctrine, or prejudice will naturally lead to the ultimate blossoming of the individual.
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Once you become an absolute "yes" to life, then spirituality is not something that you have to look for somewhere; whatever you do is spiritual
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Volunteering is a way of obliterating all limitations within you, to become absolutely willing. No spiritual process will happen to any human being unless he becomes willing. The basic essence of a spiritual process is to become willing, to become a 100% "yes" to life
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Volunteering is not a way of extracting work. Volunteering is a simple way of demolishing your likes and dislikes and learning to involve yourself in everything indiscriminately.
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Whether it is your work, your marriage, your family... you started all these things willingly, because you wanted them in your life. But then you forgot why you started this, and now you are giving unwillingly and it has become a painful process
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Most of the things that you are doing in your life are things that you have actually chosen to do. In spite of that, in day-to-day activity, there is so much struggle even with the simple activities that you are doing because you are unwilling to give yourself
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Normally, whatever little work you have to do, calculations are there: "How much should I do? Why should I do this? what will I get out of this?" with these calculations, all the beauty of doing is gone. With these calculations, the very process of life has become ugly.
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