Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.
The essence of yoga, as we have said before, is just thisto arrive at that moment where there is a clear space between you and your mind.
Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force thats around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life wont sprout.
Unless you begin to see the hollowness of where you are right now, you will not begin to seek something else strongly.
There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. Rumi
Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within.
So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.
Literally, yoga means union. When you are in yoga, it means that in your experience, everything has become one. This is the essence of the science. This is also its deepest aim.
To experience the ultimate you have to be willing to obliterate the self-created boundaries of individuality, you have to be willing to dissolve. That state of unbounded freedom is a state of oneness with Shiva an unconditioned state beyond physical experience, beyond imaginative speculation, beyond all conceptual understanding.
When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun! And
Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of health and vitality to the system.
The spiritual journey is a journey towards clarity, but never towards certainty. When you draw conclusions about beginnings and endings, you are a believer. When you accept that you really do not know anything, you become a seeker. To
Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.
Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.
They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that youre a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. Theres an urge to bite the deal.
Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows.
The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.
People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.
Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming. Your senses give you the impression that you are experiencing the outside, but you have never experienced the outside. When you realize that all that you experience is within, that absolute homecoming is enlightenment.
Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.