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Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.


Swami Dhyan Giten

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RICHARD CARLSON We have tears in our eyes
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JEANETTE CORON Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
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RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
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MARK KNOPFLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.
AMIT RAY Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
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L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
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STACEY KADE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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Those who pray have no time to stray.
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RADHANATH SWAMI We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
SWAMI SIVANANDA Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
SWAMI SIVANANDA If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
SWAMI SIVANANDA God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for actio...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SWAMI SIVANANDA We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to al...
SWAMI RAMDAS Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the m...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thou...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power....
SWAMI RAMDAS Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
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SWAMI RAMDAS The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains...
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SWAMI RAMDAS Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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RADHANATH SWAMI Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.
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SWAMI RAMDAS When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & B...
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Cultivate discrimination between the Real and the unreal, and you will know whte hollowness of the p...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Make a firm resolve. BE earnest. Be vigilant. Be advancing. March forward! O heroic soldier.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Divine Life is a life of love, wisdom and light.
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none can make you spiritual.
T...
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Strive, strive, strive. This is the sacred Mantra to success in everything.
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ANNAMALAI SWAMI Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA For every Buddha who speaks, twenty five die unknown.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, bu...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reac...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anythin That Makes You Weak Physically, Intellectually And Spiritually, reject As Poison .
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monke...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is the search for freedom--and ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA I leave none bound, I take no bonds.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
SWAMI NIRMALANANDA We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are dri...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman ...
SWAMI BEYONDANANDA The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got ...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. ...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA डेविड ने मुझे यह महसूस कराया कि कार्यस...
OM SWAMI Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impress...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA [T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic tim...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thre...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You are the creator of your own destiny
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ...
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