Quotes from Swami Chetanananda

Whatever you do, put your inner work first.

It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash.

The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.

Whatever you do, put your inner work first.

The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose.

The point is, of course, that we live in total uncertainty already. This is nothing new. Our tensions are therefore simply our attempt to hold onto something and to create some certainty for ourselves. Yet, in creating something certain, we deny ourselves access to our great inner treasure. We do not see that we are only holding onto rabbit pellets.

Through our heart, we gain access to a psychological and emotional experience of abundance that, at times for me, is overwhelming it is so beautiful. There is beauty in each of us that is truly astonishing, a beauty that expresses itself on one level as abundance and on another level as endless healing, and finally a perspective that is so peaceful, so restful, that we can reside in it even in the face of this lunatic world that we live in.

The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.