Yoga Quotes
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This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization.
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Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.
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So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
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You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest.
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Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.
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Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
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Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.
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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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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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Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.
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I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.
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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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If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.
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To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.
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If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.
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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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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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Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes.
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I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.
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Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
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Your attention has to be on your Spirit.
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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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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.