Patanjali Quotes

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• Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

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  Yoga, Moments, Present Moment

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• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.

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  Spiritual, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

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  Grief, Light, Suffering

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• Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

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  Yoga, Silence, Mind

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• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

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  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Patanjali (2015). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The longest journey begins with a single step.

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  Lost Love, Journey, Hiking

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• Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.

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  Running, Hate, Adversity

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• Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

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  Success, Yoga, Practice

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• Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

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  Effort, Intense, Sincere

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• Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

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  Yoga, Perfection, Grace

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• It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

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  Intuition, Enough

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man - 196 Indian Sutras (Aphorisms) That Constitute the Foundational Text of Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

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  Yoga, Mind, Rising

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• Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.

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  Humility, Compassion, Wicked

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• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

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  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

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  Yoga, Mind, Fluctuation

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• Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

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  Yoga, Compassion, Meditation

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• A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

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  Yoga, Mind, Wellness

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• For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
  near them, waiting.

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  Yoga, Meditation, Waiting

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• Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

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  Color, Mind, Identity

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• When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

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  Harm, Steadfast, Feels

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• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

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  Purpose, Inspired, Break

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• It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

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  Attitude, Practice, Long

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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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• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

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  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Alice Bailey, Patanjali (2012). “The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali”, p.21, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

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  Ignorance, World, Way

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