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Yoga Sutras Quotes By Scott Turow

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. — Scott Turow

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Swami Satchidananda

These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115) — Swami Satchidananda

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Fred Alan Wolf

It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously. — Fred Alan Wolf

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Annie Besant

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics. — Annie Besant

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Judith Hanson Lasater

When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. [ ... ] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self. — Judith Hanson Lasater

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy. — Soren Kierkegaard

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Deepak Chopra

The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Sharon Gannon

Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language. — Sharon Gannon

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Karan Bajaj

In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey. — Karan Bajaj

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Neale Donald Walsch

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience. — Neale Donald Walsch

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Gene Tierney

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. — Gene Tierney

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Terence McKenna

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. — Terence McKenna

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Penelope Douglas

I want to touch you." His words were against my lips now. "I want to feel what's mine. What's always been mine. — Penelope Douglas

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Douglas Booth

I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing. — Douglas Booth

Yoga Sutras Quotes By Mark T Bertolini

I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm. — Mark T Bertolini