Ravi Ravindra Quotes

• It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

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  Attachment, Expression, Order

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• What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

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  Love Is, Draws, Knows

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

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  Yoga, Eye, Psychics

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

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  Motivation, Believe, Yoga

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy

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  Heart, Joy, Mind

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• Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

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  Spiritual, Past, Desire

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• Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

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  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that,’ thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)

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  Mean, Self, Ego

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• Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

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  Country, Spiritual, Compassion

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

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  Agitation, Passive, Needed

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• If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.

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  Looks, Persons, Knows

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• Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

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  Space, Sacred, Sacred Space

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

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  Masculine And Feminine, Balance, Energy

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

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  Past, Culture, Assuming

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

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  Lying, Effort, Insecurity

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Heart, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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