Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
Interpretation
Our actions have consequences that eventually come back to us.
This quote by Swami Satchidananda emphasizes the idea of karma, suggesting that whatever we do, whether good or bad, will eventually return to us. It serves as a reminder of the interconnectedness of our actions and their effects, encouraging mindfulness and responsibility in our behavior.
In practice
In a discussion about ethical behavior at a workplace.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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