Rama Swami famous quotes

04-17-2025

Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
-- Rama Swami

#Thinking #Mind #Trying
To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.
-- Rama Swami

#Mind #Awareness #Purity
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
-- Rama Swami

#Wise #Wisdom #Peace
If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.
-- Rama Swami

#Meditation #Mind #Way
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'
-- Rama Swami

#Karma #Philosophy #Law
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.
-- Rama Swami

#Inspirational #Life #Self
What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.
-- Rama Swami

#Inspirational #Life #Letting Go
It was Lord Jesus Christ who said "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
-- Rama Swami

#Inspirational #Life #Jesus
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
-- Rama Swami

#God #Ego #Soul
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
-- Rama Swami

#Art #Men #Meditation
The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.
-- Rama Swami

#Yoga #Law #Steps
All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.
-- Rama Swami

#God #Reality #Self
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.
-- Rama Swami

#Moving #Journey #Order

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