Patanjali Quotes
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It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.
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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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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.
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Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.
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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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Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.
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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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The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.
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Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.
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Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.
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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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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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Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
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There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.
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Yoga is mind wave quieting.
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It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.
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Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.
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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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When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.
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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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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 longest journey begins with a single step.
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Everything is sorrow for the wise.
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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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