Swami Sivananda 🕉️

Tell me: What are you grateful for today?

A beggar can be rich and an
emperor can be poor.
Richness is a quality of being.

Osho

"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."

- Eckhart Tolle

Peter’s Laws: The Creed of the Persistent and Passionate Mind.

1. If anything can go wrong, Fix it! To hell with Murphy!
2. When given a choice… take both!
3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
4. Start at the top then work your way up.
5. Do it by the book … but be the author!
6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
7. If you can’t win, change the rules.
8. If you can’t change the rules, then ignore them.
9. Perfection is not optional.
10. When faced without a challenge, make one.
11. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.
12. Don’t walk when you can run.
13. When in doubt: THINK!
14. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.
15. The squeaky wheel gets replaced.
16. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
17. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!
18. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite.
19. You get what you incentivize.
20. If you think it is impossible, then it is… for you.
21. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.
22. The day before something is a breakthrough it’s a crazy idea.
23. If it were easy it would have been done already.
24. Without a target you’ll miss it every time.
25. Fail early, fail often, fail forward!
26. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
27. The world’s most precious resource is the persistent and passionate human mind.
28. Bureaucracy is an obstacle to be conquered with persistence, confidence, and a bulldozer when necessary.

I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere, the beginning of eternity, the end of space and time. What am I?

On the occasion of World Philosophy Day, sharing 20 powerful quotes from 20 world’s most influential philosophers:

1) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

2) “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
– Heraclitus

3) “Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.”
– Plato

4) “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

5) “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

6) “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

7) “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

8) “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

9) “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius

10) “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis

11) “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
– Voltaire

12) “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
– Epictetus

13) “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
– René Descartes

14) “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
– Karl Marx

15) “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
– Seneca

16) “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
– Immanuel Kant

17) “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination embraces the entire universe.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

18) “The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.”
– Baruch Spinoza

19) “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
– Ayn Rand

20) “Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
– Simone de Beauvoir

Risk is the down payment of your success.

Know all theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch human soul be just another human being.
- Carl Jung

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever, take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
- Augustine.

ARE YOU WITH THE RIGHT PARTNER?

During a seminar, a woman asked, “How do I know if I am with the right person?”
The author then noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so he said, “It depends. Is that your partner?” In all seriousness, she answered “How do you know?” Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it’s weighing on your mind replied the author.

Here’s the answer.

Every relationship has a cycle… In the beginning; you fall in love with your partner. You anticipate their calls, want their touch, and like their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love wasn’t hard. In fact, it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn’t have to DO anything. That’s why it’s called “falling” in love.

People in love sometimes say, “I was swept off my feet.” Picture the expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something happened TO YOU. Falling in love is a passive and spontaneous experience. But after a few months or years of being together, the euphoria of love fades. It’s a natural cycle of EVERY relationship.

Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse’s idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship; you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.

At this point, you and/or your partner might start asking, “Am I with the right person?” And as you reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when relationships break down.

The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person; it’s learning to love the person you found.

People blame their partners for their unhappiness and look outside for fulfillment. Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes.
Infidelity is the most common. But sometimes people turn to work, a hobby, friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your relationship. It lies within it.

I’m not saying that you couldn’t fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you’d feel better. But you’d be in the same situation a few years later. Because (listen carefully to this):
The key to succeeding in a Relationship is not finding the right person; it’s learning to love the Person you found.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. You have to work on it day in and day out. It takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it demands WISDOM.

You have to know WHAT TO DO to make it work. Make no mistake about it!
Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your partner), just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. If you know how to apply these laws, the results are predictable.

Love is therefore a “decision”. Not just a feeling.
Remember this always: God determines who walks into your life. It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let GO!

सर्वं संभव्यते त्वयि -Everything is possible by you.

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

SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI

You believe God looks at us from above but he actually sees us from the inside

— Shams Tabrizi

Being selective about who gets your precious time and energy is a form of self care.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Don’t Complain About Anything

The villagers had been coming to the local wise man every week, many complaining about the same problems each time.

One day he told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter. After a couple of minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled. When he told the same joke for the third time, no one laughed.

The wise man smiled and said, “You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always complaining about the same problem?”

The lesson: Don’t complain about anything.

If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, complaining is just a waste of energy.

When you complain, you’re giving too much power to the problem. Take back that power.

A man who lives never asks, "What is living?" and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about
the purpose of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One definition of maturity is lengthening the gap between impulse and action. - Daniel Goleman.