Top 40 Om Swami Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Success by design is infinitely better than a win by chance.’ Success.”

— Om Swami

2. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Om Swami

3. “Concentration is the act of building focus and meditation is the art of retaining it without losing awareness.”

— Om Swami

4. “Peace doesn’t mean a life devoid of adversities, troubles and challenges. Instead, it means to be surrounded by all of that and yet have faith and be calm. That is the real meaning of peace.”

— Om Swami

5. “Whatever we feel we lack in life, whenever anyone gives us that, we equate it with love. It could be attention or intimacy for some or appreciation and spending quality time for others. Love is different things to different people.”

— Om Swami

6. “Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process of washing away that residue. It is the cleaning of your slate and keeping it that way. When we fail to abandon our thoughts, they assume different forms. They can become desires, expectations or emotions.”

— Om Swami

7. “Expectations are those desires you believe you have the right to see fulfilled. Due to our own conditioning by numerous factors, we develop expectations. They are the primary cause of all grief and stress. When we expect, we place a burden on ourselves as well as the one we expect from.”

— Om Swami

8. “When we start to tame the body and its needs, taming the mind becomes easier.”

— Om Swami

9. “The universe is trillions of years old, our galaxy and planet are billions of years old. The human race is a few million years old, while the average human life is seventy years. It’s a very short life. It must be celebrated, it must be lived. Life is not a challenge that needs to be faced. Nor is it an enemy that needs to be fought. For that matter, it’s not a problem that needs solving either. It’s a flowing river, and all we need to do is to flow with it,’ I said. ‘Live. Love. Laugh. Give.”

— Om Swami

10. “For if I’m doing anything in my life out of choice, there’s no reason to complain and if I don’t have a choice then there’s no sense in complaining.”

— Om Swami

11. “The process of kundalini awakening or its understanding is incomplete without an intimate knowledge of the three knots that bind each one of us.”

— Om Swami

12. “Awakening of the kundalini is putting an end to attracting the wrong things in our lives. It begins by feeling and experiencing the completeness and fulfillment within us.”

— Om Swami

13. “The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.”

— Om Swami

14. “If your own thoughts cannot provoke you, nothing external can provoke you either. Every external occurrence triggers an internal thought that may alter your state of mind. If you can just be the spectator and not the reactor or an adopter of the thought, the thought becomes powerless.”

— Om Swami

15. “Forgiveness sympathizes and compassion empathizes. And love? Love synthesizes the two. Appreciation.”

— Om Swami

16. “Depression is a fracture of not just your mind, it’s a fracture of your very being – everything you thought you were or stood for feels broken.”

— Om Swami

17. “When we cling to a thought or follow its track, we are performing a mental karma, and that, in turn, is the seed of all physical actions.”

— Om Swami

18. “Our identification with the body is so strong that most people spend their lives simply taking care of the body. The body feels cold, let’s clothe it; it feels hot, let’s remove the layers; it’s hungry, feed it; it’s tired, give it rest. We become so preoccupied with fulfilling the body’s many desires – cleaning, feeding, clothing, decorating and protecting it, that we become its slaves.”

— Om Swami

19. “Depression is not absence of happiness. It is absence of life and of will.”

— Om Swami

20. “The biggest problem with poverty is the shame that comes with it. When you give the best you have to someone in need, it translates into something much deeper to the receiver. It means they are worthy. If it’s not good enough for you, it’s not good enough for those in need either. Giving the best you have does more than feed an empty belly – it feeds the soul.”

— Om Swami

21. “The fundamental difference between Vedic and tantric thought is your take on God. In tantra you say, “You are my object of worship. You are superior than I am and that is why I’m praying to you. But, I’m not merely interested in eulogizing or seeking pardon for my sins. I want to purify myself to the extent where I merge in you and you merge in me, so that one day I become you. I’m not interested in this union after I die; I want to experience it while I live.”

— Om Swami

22. “The tree laden with fruits is always a bit bent. Not because of any burden but because it has something to offer. Humility.”

— Om Swami

23. “We can change our habits. We needn’t be at the mercy of thoughts like ‘that’s just my personality’ or ‘it’s in my genes so there’s nothing I can do about it’. Negative habits can be replaced with positive ones, selfish ones with kind ones, suspicion with trust, hostility with empathy and complaints with gratitude. – David R. Hamilton, Why Kindness is Good for You.”

— Om Swami

24. “This constant play of nature – one season comes, then goes, another one comes, then goes – is what life is all about. It’s not about some grand goal. Zen does not believe in that. Zen says, nirvana or moksha is simply a matter of perspective. If you can eat when you are eating, if you can sleep when you are sleeping, you are jivan-mukta, a liberated soul. You are enlightened.”

— Om Swami

25. “In everything that we do, we are relentlessly, even if subconsciously, working towards feeling complete. We drink water when we are thirsty; we eat food when we are hungry. In whatever we feel we lack, nature propels us to take action so we may feel fulfilled. Some.”

— Om Swami

26. “At the root of all emotions patients of depression experience, there are three primary feelings: first, a sense of insecurity; second, a sense of vulnerability; and finally, a sense of isolation. They.”

— Om Swami

27. “A good sadhaka, after having gained mastery over manipura, can examine their fears without feeling anxious.”

— Om Swami

28. “Thoughts have no definitive point of origin, no set course of travel, and no specific site of disappearance.”

— Om Swami

29. “Practice of gratitude lends incredible emotional strength. If you are emotionally strong, you can succeed at anything, anything at all. Gratitude makes you emotionally pure and such purity in turn allows you to love unconditionally.”

— Om Swami

30. “When you feel negative, down, pensive, angry, sad, jealous and so forth, being mindful helps you emerge stronger than your negative emotions. It takes away the resistance and force from the negative emotions and you immediately feel better.”

— Om Swami

31. “The thing about depression is it blurs your perception of the future and makes it nearly impossible to see that end. You start to think that there’s no such thing as ‘winning’, and why bother fighting if you already know the outcome. It gradually strips you of any hope you previously had. And without hope, it’s difficult to see a future or a reason to fight.”

— Om Swami

32. “Retain only what you really care about because the stuff we keep inside is what shapes us. What are you made of? Problem or Inconvenience?”

— Om Swami

33. “If you are able to terminate the thought in your head though, the desire or emotion will disappear like it never existed. This.”

— Om Swami

34. “One of the most outstanding aspects of Ayurveda is its teaching that nothing is absolute. The utility, value and effect of anything is relative. Hence, the efficacy of its healing is dependent on the receiver, the time and the environment. It.”

— Om Swami

35. “It is something quite difficult to rise above the desire to be complimented and accepted. You can move beyond anger and lust, you can remain unaffected in gain or loss, but to let go the need for another’s approval, what is said or thought about you, isn’t easy at all. It takes great insight and a strong sense of self-worth to move beyond this need.”

— Om Swami

36. “And the greatest support you can extend to a patient of depression is acceptance. Accept and understand that she is not intentionally behaving in a dysfunctional manner. Something deep within is broken which is making her behave like this.”

— Om Swami

37. “Do not get so busy living that you give yourself no time to breathe.”

— Om Swami

38. “I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity. But I find that thy will knows no end in me. And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. -.”

— Om Swami

39. “It’s not that I’m smarter, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

— Om Swami

40. “People with low pH levels age quicker for, your skin, your hair, most muscles are made from protein. pH is measured in molecular weight also known as moles per liter. An increase of one point on the pH scale represents a tenfold or one thousand percent decrease in the concentration of hydrogen ions. And a decrease of one point on the pH scale means a thousand percent increase in hydrogen ions. Therefore, a pH of six and eight is not merely two points but twentyfold change.”

— Om Swami

41. “Awakening of the kundalini is realization of your pure abstract intelligence, the type that is not conditioned by your fears, emotions and worries. It is your pristine nature. When you are able to tap into this latent source of energy, you truly become the master of your universe. You can manifest whatever you wish in your life because your scale of consciousness is no longer limited to your body alone; it envelops the whole universe. If.”

— Om Swami

42. “If you can either change your perspective or your response towards what you find disturbing, ninety per cent of the job is done. The.”

— Om Swami

43. “When you take up a cause bigger than yourself, the whole universe summons itself to be at your feet, at your disposal. This is the irrefutable law of nature.”

— Om Swami