Top 284 Quotes & Sayings by Harbhajan Singh Yogi - Page 3

Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose.

If you give your word, let the entire Universe fall before you, but let your word stand.

May God guide you on this path. May you understand that you are blessed children and you have a job to do. May you know in your heart that God belongs to you always, within and without. May your sorrows never touch your tomorrow, may your blessings be for all, may your happiness be shared, and may your smiles give hope to others.

If you do not love yourself to the depth of totality, you will never love love as a reality.

Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold.

If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don't speak at all, and on Saturday I can't even think how to speak the truth.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.

Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"?

If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it down from its obnoxious behavior.

You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

Never curse yourself by limiting your students.

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer when you are in difficulty. Pray when you are not in difficulty! That is the attitude of gratitude.

A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

3HO is a family of healthy, happy, and holy people. Do you understand the word "family"? If, under all longitudes and latitudes, we keep our nucleus together, that is a family.

The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.

Find friends and not lovers; you will win the game of life.

A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.

Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an understanding. The difference is, the discipline is, the commitment is that we are going to come together with the following guiding lines: 'May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on.' When we came together we decided we would guide our way on. My way and your way we already know, so we do not need to learn that. Each one of you knows 'my' way and 'your' way. All we have to learn is 'our' way."

This 3HO shall be the most important legacy on this planet for the Age of Aquarius. Sooner or later people will experience a tremendous amount of emptiness which always brings a void. A void brings unhappiness. Then people will want to find a place where they can be healthy, happy, and holy.

You are remembered for your goodness.

You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as anything in the universe can be. So unless you produce in yourself elegance, grace, sophisticatedness in your mind, manners and attitude, and unless you come from the infinite altitude, and ascend to that altitude, you cannot descend in love. The higher is your being, the deeper is the love.

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies.

Truth is everlasting.

You can never hide from your truth. If you do, you will always be lost.

Passion is like waves; it comes and goes. Compassion is the constant flow.

As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.

Sometimes bringing out your inner best is the secret of success.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

When the prayer becomes the vibration of the mind and self, then we can create a miracle.

The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the squawking ducks in a pond. The mind is not meant to be spoken. The mind is mostly waves of thoughts and sensations from many sources. The mind is meant to know the truth. Know your own mind and use it to speak the truth.

Love without trust is a river without water.

The mind is given to you, you are not given to the mind.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.

Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

You should make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people become happy.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.