Ravi Ravindra Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)
• 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…
• Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)
• Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . .…
• What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)
• 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…
• 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)
• Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and…
• 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...…
• Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
• 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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