"This tissue of the body is a limited expression of the divine potential, which must recover its super conscious awareness; and my asana is a practice of making it aware, my mind dwelling on it helps to infuse that awareness, and as I stretch it I consecrate the very substance of my body to the divine presence. I feel the divine presence in my heart with love, I offer my body and its stretch and its sensation in that love and my mind dwells in the sense of oneness. It is a meditation, a profound meditation including the body, the emotions and the mind - my whole being one pointed in union dwelling on the One.” ~Sri Sraddhalu Ranade  »

"Not knowing is the most intimate." ~ Zen Master Hogen  »

"To know another human being in their essence, you don't really need to know anything about them, their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness...Without the conceptual barriers, love is naturally present in all human interactions." ~Eckhart Tolle  »

“Love is patient, and everything else is impatient. Passion is impatient, love is patient. And once you understand that to be patient is to be loving, and to be patient is to be in prayer, then everything is understood. One has to learn how to wait. There are some things that cannot be done, they only happen, they happen to you, you become the receiving end, and that is the meaning of surrender..." ~Osho  »

"My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." ~Abraham Hicks  »

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." ~Buddha  »

“Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do." ~Neale Donald Walsch  »

"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." ~Sri Ramana Maharshi  »

“Are you striving for success? Then never think of quitting; Footprints in the sand of time Cannot be made by sitting.” ~A. W. Thomas  »

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, but hope for the patience to win my freedom.” ~Rabindranath Tagore  »

"Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God." ~Sri T. Krishnamacharya  »

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable....Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible." ~The Buddha  »

“Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do." ~Neale Donald Walsch  »

“The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death.” ~Yajur Veda  »

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." ~ Emily Dickinson  »

“If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter – if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois  »

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  »

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Marianne Williamson  »

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson  »

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ~Mohandas K. Ghandi  »

"Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itelf is a pain, you might say--the pain of being truly alive." ~Joseph Campbell  »

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  »

The Basis of Your Life is Freedom; the Purpose of Your Life is Joy. ~The Teaching of Abraham  »

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." ~Barack Obama  »

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." ~Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto  »

"All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing... Delay does not matter in eternity, but is tragic in time... only infinite patience produces immediate effects." ~A Course In Miracles  »

"On a phonological level Sanskrit mantras represent continuity of form through vibration. In other words, Sanskrit has a predominance of sounds that extend vibration within its alphabetic structure. It is Sanskrit’s careful attention to the unity of breath, tongue placement, and the fluttering of the vocal chords that make its sounds steady and continuous. Thus, the sonorous Sanskrit mantras act as effective vehicles for carrying the aspirant to his or her goal: inner silent awareness." ~Manorama, Sanskrit Teacher  »

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot  »

"You cannot restore someone to their Connection with Source by belittling them or by punishing them, or by being disgusted with them. It is only through love that you can return anyone to love. And if you do not have a way of returning them to love, they will always be a problem to your society." -Abraham  »

"No one who lives in fear is really alive." ~A Course In Miracles  »

"Imagine all the people/Living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer/But I'm not the only one/I hope someday you'll join us/And the world will be as one" - John Lennon, Imagine  »

"We can only control our reactions and attitudes to what happens to us. We cannot control the actual events. Learn the difference." -Dr. Brian Weiss  »

"And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds.” ~Philippians 4:7  »

"We must go beyond clean food. True cleanliness begins on the inside. It begins with a clean thought, a higher consciousness. Next, we move to the physical plane, remembering that a person will become on the outside what he/she thinks on the inside. We must cultivate a clean mind and, with it, clean body tissues. Cleanliness of mind is a spiritual effort." --Dr. Bernard Jensen  »

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." -Alan Alda, American actor  »

"The body is a string of pearls held together by our awareness." - BKS Iyengar  »

"Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline. Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all."
-Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love  »

"There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost." -Martha Graham  »

"Only to the extent that a person exposes [themself] over and over to annihilation, can that which is indestructible be found within them. In this daring lies dignity and the spirit of true awakening." --Karlfried von Durkheim  »

"You have to find out for yourself...how to welcome this present moment as if you had invited it and work with it instead of against it, turning the mind into an ally instead of an enemy." -Pema Chodron  »