Quotes from Patanjali

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

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.

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.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

The longest journey begins with a single step.

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.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

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.

Distractions arise from habitual thought patterns when practice is intermittent.

With this truth bearing light will begin a new life. Old unwanted impressions are discarded and we are protected from the damaging effects of new experiences.

Life cannot be known by the "mind," its secrets cannot be learned through the "mind." The proof is, the ceaseless strife and contradiction of opinion among those who trust in the mind. Much less can the "mind" know itself, the more so, because it is pervaded by the illusion that it truly knows, truly is.

The purpose of life, therefore, is the realizing of that prophecy; the unveiling of the immortal man; the birth of the spiritual from the psychical, whereby we enter our divine inheritance and come to inhabit Eternity. This is, indeed, salvation, the purpose of all true religion, in all times. Patanjali

Nothing in all creation is so like God as silence.

The great secret is this: it is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

OM: the symbol of the Three in One, the three worlds in the Soul; the three times, past, present, future, in Eternity; the three Divine Powers, Creation, Preservation, Transformation, in the one Being; the three essences, immortality, omniscience, joy, in the one Spirit. This is the Word, the Symbol, of the Master and Lord, the perfected Spiritual Man.