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There is a time to be still in the pose.

There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

There is no one to realize the Self.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

There is no place to go and no one to be.

There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.

There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.

These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.

The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

The Spirit which is within you is a collective being and once you are awakened into the light of Spirit, you become a collective being. That means, on your finger tips you can feel the centers of others also as you can feel yourself. By knowing yourself you know the self knowledge, the inner self knowledge and by knowing others you are in collective consciousness.

The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.

The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.