Patanjali Quotes About Yoga
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The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
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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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Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.
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Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.
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If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.
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Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
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Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
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Yoga is mind wave quieting.
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Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.
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Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
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For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.
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Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.
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The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
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A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.
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Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
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With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.
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Yoga is the cessation of mind.
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The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.
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