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Swami Satchidananda

"We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)"

Source : Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

Swami Satchidananda

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“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”
“I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.”

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“In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.”

Source : "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.
“Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.”
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true”
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
“The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways that were unique to each of us. Her uniqueness was very much a part of the way she sang the songs, the story she wanted to tell through the songs. I didn't really have a full understanding of Billie until I left home -- until I'd lived a little, shall we say. At different seasons of my life, when I'd sing her songs or listen to her albums, I'd hear things I didn't hear before. Wherever you are in life, you'll hear different things in her songs.”
“I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.261, Harlequin

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