Patanjali Quotes
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Egoism is the identification of the power that knows with the instruments of knowing.
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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
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Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
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Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
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Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
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By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.
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When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.
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When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence
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Supreme happiness is gained via contentment.
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Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
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Realization is experienced by making the Lord the motive of all actions.
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Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
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For one who sees the distinction, there is no further confusing of the mind with the self.