It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiBe equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiPeople always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiGiving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami