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So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.

Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers.

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

The authentic self is the soul made visable.

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit.

The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

The difficult opponent is the best.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.

The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.