Swami Premodaya Quotes

“There’s no handbook. The handbook is your heart; the confusion is your head.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“To be the real you is the spiritual path.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“The wisdom mind is not some faraway attainment. You got it when you were born, you have it every second, and it is always trying to get you to listen a little closer.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“Attachment to enjoyment limits your ability to enjoy, and guarantees eventual misery. So when you’re not attached to enjoyment, you enjoy much more.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“Most people are meditating on what they like, or don’t like. Most people are meditating on how to be happy, how to have a better life, how to make more money, how to get sex—so don’t be confused. What you give your attention to, IS your meditation. Formal meditation, the ‘practice’ of meditation, is an antidote for these involuntary meditations that people are always engaging in without realizing it. You get to focus on something different, something perhaps of your choosing.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“When you relax, the universe starts to answer questions you never even asked.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Everything that you do, amounts to meditation. Whatever you focus on, whatever you concentrate on, whatever you give your energy to, whatever you think about—is ‘meditating’ upon it. Ordinarily, that is not the everyday understanding of meditation, but it’s true. Most people are meditating on their problems.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“Joy is the human experience of the Divine itself.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You are not a biological being. Only your body is biological. The rest of you is #spiritual through and through.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“A human being is responsible for one thing only: His own happiness.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You are not a biological being. Only your body is biological. The rest of you is spiritual through and through.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“The spiritual path is a call from the other world—so the rest is just about hearing it more clearly, and answering it more fully.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“There's no such thing as meaningless communication.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“Love is never a one-way street.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“The ego is just a grab-bag of pre-set preferences.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“Most of what you are is attitude.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You have no reason not to be optimistic, actually. Hasn't everything, even the worst and most terrible things, eventually worked out? That's the real reason for a kind of a blanket optimism... If you look back over your life... in a sober, sincere way, you’ll see that it's always worked out.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Love is not a feeling or state of being. Love is the intrinsically radian building material that everything in existence is made out of.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Love is not a feeling or state of being. Love is the intrinsically radiant building material that everything in existence is made out of.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Karma is itself, the agency of balance.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Life is for living, not thinking through.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Spirituality is how to get back to the love game you started with.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“There's no shallow end to the pool of Existence.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“The center of a human being has at its core, joy and bliss.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“There’s nothing that isn’t God.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Everything has to be transcended; nothing has to be given up.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Truth is simple. If it’s complicated, it isn’t Truth. Truth is simple, always.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“If you can witness without reactions, then you are moving toward awareness.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya