Quotes About Spirituality

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

In southern India, there was a legendary yogi named Sadashiva Brahmendra. He was a nirkaya, which literally means "bodiless yogi." He had no sense of body. Wearing clothes does not even occur to a person in such a state. He just walked around naked. Also in such a condition, there is no sense of home, property, or physical boundary.

The moment I realized that human desire was not for any particular thing, but just to expand illimitably

Elemental Memory and Atomic Memory together constitute

Then I was a man I only went up the Hill As I had time to kill But kill I did all that was Me and Mine With Me and Mine gone Lost all my will and skill Here I am, an empty vessel Enslaved to the Divine Will and infinite skill

Indian culture built numerous temples on every street. The idea was not to create temples that were in competition with one another. The idea was simply that no one should live in a space that is not consecrated. It

The more you identify with your mind, the further away you are from Your Self.

Life can be tasted and transcended only when there is a distinction between the psychological and the existential.

Sutra literally means thread.

You either participate in life out of your compulsions or out of your consciousness. Consciousness means to be beyond compulsiveness. Compulsiveness means repetitive nature. Adiyogi participates out of consciousness. He recognizes that there are compulsions in people, but the whole spiritual process is to rise beyond that.

There is a point of convergence in your energetic body that stretches beyond the physical body. It is approximately seventeen to nineteen inches from the point between your eyebrows. You must search for the point where the vision meets at an acute angle of eleven degrees. Finding that point of convergence boosts the akasha, or etheric element, within you. The moment the element of akasha is dominant, you will find the clarity of your perception hugely enhanced.

The very source of creation is functioning within you.

Velliangiri" literally means "silver mountain

If you still believe that everything will be okay the moment you find a new girlfriend or boyfriend, get a raise, buy a new house or car, then it is not yet time for yoga. Once you've tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready. So now, yoga.

some think it's in the wine, and others think it's in the divine, but pleasantness is what everyone's

how to handle it. The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether.

This is the sole purpose of the spiritual process. The life and work of every spiritual guide, across history and across culture, has been just this: to point out that the cage door does not exist. Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice. The

The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as "you" and "me." It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga.

What is karma? Literally, the word means action.

Shiva is a bit like a packed lunch! You don't have to go to a restaurant to be served. You don't have to go to a temple or to heaven to find him. The ultimate nature of your existence always goes with you. There is only one place to go and it goes with you. How's that for simplicity? You really cannot get a better deal!

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are. The aim is to unshackle yourself from the limited identity you have forged, as a result of your own ignorance, and live the way the Creator made you—utterly blissful and infinitely responsible.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.