Swami Paramananda famous quotes
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Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong...
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There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.
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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
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There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.
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True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.
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Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.
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We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.
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Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
-- Swami Paramananda
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
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In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
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