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Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.

Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.

Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.

Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws.

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.

Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.

Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.

So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.

Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.

Samadhi is the actual awareness of what you really are.

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.

Sahasrara is your awareness. When it is enlightened, you get into the technique of the Divine. Now there are two techniques - the technique of the Divine and the technique that you follow. You cannot act as Divine but you can use the Divine power and maneuver it.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.

Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

So our ego has to be seen. It is to be watched in a witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point because that is the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and all your problems will be solved because these problems are so frivolous and have no meaning.