Quotes from Swami Muktananda

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.

The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.

Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.