Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.
If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.
You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.
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