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

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

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 authentic self is the soul made visable.

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

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

The difficult opponent is the best.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

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

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

The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!

The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.

The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda.

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.

The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.