“If you are thirsty the river comes to you. If you are not thirsty there is no river. ”
Sat Prem
“Each being in its subjective depths carries that numinous mystery whence the universe emerges into being.”
Thomas Berry
“You carry within you the capacity to imagine and give shape to your world.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”
Swami Sivananda
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured, and to endure what can not be cured.”
B.K.S Iyengar
“Posture becomes firm and relaxed through control of the natural tendencies of the body, and through meditation on the infinite.”
Yoga Sutras
“Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray”
Kabir
“Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind,
Such is the likness of the Yogi’s mind
Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to heaven.”
Bhagavid-Gita VI:19
“The yogi who establishes himself in a steady posture easily becomes immersed in the ocean of the heart”
Shiva Sutra 3.16
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T.S. Eliot
“The solution of the mind is an organized way of not coming to any conclusion.”
Sri Chinmoy
“So the darkness shall be the light,
And the stillness the dancing”
T.S Elliot: Four Quartets
“Whoever has parted from his source
Longs to return to that state of union.”
Rumi
“Even though you tie a hundred knots
The string remains one.”
Rumi
“Conscious perception of the dreamlike nature of the objective world arises from interaction of the heart and mind.”
“By focusing the attention on the One Reality (great point or maha-bindu) the individuality is freed from the binding nature of worldy existance”
Sutra 1.15 & 1.16 of Siva Sutras
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge….”
Sri Aurobindo
“Love life. You are here to love life. That’s what the Tantra is offering; the opportunity to step fully, ever more deeply, every day, in every breath, into the possibility of savoring the gift of embodiment; of realizing that the Universe has gone through all of this trouble to make you. That you’re not here to get something, or acquire something , or achieve something; but merely to taste, to savor the gift of the conversation of the heart. And let that be enough to let this message of love in.”
Gopala Iyer Sundarmoorthy
“In the end, these things matter most:
how well did you live?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?”
The Buddha
“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and can not be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant … ”
Carl Jung
“Realization must be amidst all the turmoil of life.”
Ramana Maharshi
“As we contemplate peace and happiness in ourselves we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When we keep our pain close to our heart, there arises insight and even compassion. There is a healing when what we fear is warmly received in a clear awareness.”
Stepnen Levine
“Never the spirit was born;
The spirit shall cease to be never.
Never was time it was not;
End and beginning are dreams.
Birthless and deathless, and changeless,
Remaineth the spirit forever;
Death hath not touched it at all,
Dead though the house of it seems.”
Bhagavad Gita
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