Swami Sukhabodhananda

1.    When God gives us problems, it is to humble us and not to tumble us.

2.    Pain is a gift from the divine to look into what is happening more deeply.

3.    You should be the master of the mind rather than mind being your master. You should use the mind rather than let the mind use you.

4.    Mind creates misery by its desires, expectations, anger and jealousy stimulated by unnecessary comparisons.

5.    When one is alert, one can transform poison into medicine.

6.    A noisy and pushy mind leads one to a state of unhappiness.

7.    In a seed, there is an infinite capacity to grow. Infinity exists in a finite seed. A seed planted becomes a tree. From a tree again there is a fruit, from a fruit there is a seed, from a seed a tree, so in a finite seed there is the infinite capacity to grow.

8.    Worry is a form of identification. It is useless. Unfortunately many of us think it is right to worry about someone we love. This is madness in motion. Give up this voluntary form of suffering.

9.    Learn to be a witness to your thoughts and feelings. In the witnessing consciousness, there is no identification with anything. Identification leads to misery.

10. Can you dwell a little more on the inner world, the mind? Generally, we are present physically in a place while being psychologically elsewhere. Outer seeing makes you see physically where you are. Inner seeing makes you see psychologically where you are.

11. There is no greater force than awareness. When one increases awareness, even a poison can turn into a medicine and with no awareness a medicine can become a poison.