Our Quotes of the Day:
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Yoga is known as Brahmavidya (knowledge of the supreme spirit). This great knowledge is ancient and extremely difficult to attain. For its accomplishment, many lifetimes are required. If it were evaluated objectively, it would be defined as the supreme religion, the global religion, the universal religion, the human religion or the eternal religion.
... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.
The path of devotion is the path of self-surrender.
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.
So is your thought, so is you. If your thoughts are good, you are good; if they are bad, you are bad.
Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
