Yoga Quotes
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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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Present is the reality. The past is finished, and the future doesn't exist. When the Kundalini rises She elongates those thoughts and establishes in the center where there is complete thoughtless awareness. And spiritually you grow in that thoughtless awareness which in Sanskrit we call as Nirvichaar Samadhi.
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The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
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You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?
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I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
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Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.
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Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
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The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
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You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
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Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.
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Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.
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To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.
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This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
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When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
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Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.
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Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.
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If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.
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Your attention has to be on your Spirit.
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Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.
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Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.
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We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.
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What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.
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I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.
