Patanjali Quotes - Page 2

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• Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

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  Perfection, Effort, Asana

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• The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

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  Yoga, Different, Consciousness

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• With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

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  Yoga, Blessing, And Love

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• Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

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  Yoga, Noble, Purpose Of Life

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• Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.

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  Spiritual, Sex, Energy

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• The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

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  Life, Heart, Self

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• Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

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  Nice, Grief, Self

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• Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

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  Yoga, Meditation, Mind

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• The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

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  Yoga, Vision, Doubt

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• The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

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  Inspirational, Life, Opposites

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• When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

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  Money, Greed, Wake Up

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• Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

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  Yoga, Practice, Way

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• Yoga is mind wave quieting.

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  Yoga, Mind, Mindfulness

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• In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

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  Oil, Meditation, Flow

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• Yoga is the cessation of mind.

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  Yoga, Mind

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• The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Reading

  Alice Bailey, Patanjali (2012). “The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali”, p.112, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

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  Progress, Trying, Mediation

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