Swami Paramananda Professions : Poet Born : February 5, 1884 Died : June 21, 1940 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Swami Paramananda Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong. Swami Paramananda connections self mean Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul. Swami Paramananda men art thinking There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge. Swami Paramananda magnitude attributes certain We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien. Swami Paramananda grief hatred enemy There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination. Swami Paramananda maps awareness imagination Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience. Swami Paramananda endurance triumph evil True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual. Swami Paramananda self spiritual mean True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. Swami Paramananda meditation wings giving Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
