Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that our fundamental essence is joy and peace, which is always available to us.
In this quote, Swami Satchidananda conveys the idea that our true self fundamentally embodies infinite joy, peace, and freedom. He suggests that these qualities are inherent and accessible, and that by realizing our true nature, we can experience a lasting sense of happiness and tranquility regardless of external circumstances.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to inspire people to find happiness within themselves.
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.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
. . . 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.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
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