21 Patanjali Quotes

Patanjali quotes

1. 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.

2. In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

3. 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.

4. Progress in mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

5. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.

6. When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence

7. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

1. Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.

2. The longest journey begins with a single step.

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

4. 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.

5. Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

6. With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

7. Everything is sorrow for the wise.

8. The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

9. 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.

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

11. The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

12. Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

13. Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

14. 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.