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• In the name of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. – The King James Bible

  — Spirit

• “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” – Steven Weinberg

  — Metaphysics

• When it comes to creation, instead of asking why, if you see, right now you are a part of the creation, and like you said you are entangled and stuck and drowning in the creation. Not everybody maybe, but at least quite a lot of people feel like they are drowning, when things go wrong at least. So right now in some way you are entangled

  — Entanglement

• “All these entanglements are like the life of the silk moth. Silk yarn is a sort of fleshy, pulpy substance that comes out of the silk moth. When the moth is just a day old, it is the size of a hair. You can have more than a hundred worms within the space of a thumb. The next day, you’ll need the palm of your hand to accommodate them. On the third day, you’ll need a large tray. Within thirty days, each worm is thicker than a thumb and over three inches long. They grow so big within such a short time because they do nothing but eat mulberry leaves.” – The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

  — Entanglement

• “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

  — Boredom

• “Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.”

  — Boredom

• These newer styles of vinyasa yoga are a less structured offshoot of the Ashtanga Yoga system. Ashtanga Yoga has a strict structure and precise set of rules and was developed in by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His teacher, Krishnamacharya , is attributed with being the originator of the Vinyasa concept in yoga. Krishnamacharya’s yoga style was constantly changing as he was a master of adapting yoga to the personality of his students. The yoga Jois learned from Krishnamacharya became his way of teaching all of his students, and he named this style Ashtanga Yoga.

  — Vinyasa Yoga

• “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” – Steven Weinberg

  — The Unknown

• “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” – Steven Weinberg, Theoretical Physicist

  — The Point

• “Synchronicity” is the term used to describe the feeling that everything in life — the ups, the downs, the disasters and the triumphs, seem to work together for your good. Author Joseph Jaworski argues that the right state of mind will make you the kind of person who can enlist the cooperation of fate and take advantage of synchronicity, creating the conditions for “predictable miracles.” - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

  — Synchronicity

• “Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see” - Jung

  — Synchronicity

• “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh”

  — Suffering

• All life is suffering – Buddah, The Four Noble Truths

  — Suffering

• And this is why it’s so spiritual. To be non-spiritual is not to see that. In other words, it is to impose upon the physical world the idea of things of substantiality that is to be involved in matter. To identify with the body. To believe in other words that the body is something constant, something tangible. So therefore, if you cling to the body you will be frustrated. So the whole point is that the material world, the world of nature, is marvelous so long as you don’t try to lean on it – Alan Watts

  — Spirituality

• Everything can be sadhana. The way you eat, the way you sit, the way you stand, the way you breathe, the way you conduct your body, mind and your energies and emotions – this is sadhana. Sadhana does not mean any specific kind of activity, sadhana means you are using everything as a tool for your wellbeing. — Sadhguru

  — Sadhana

• I hold that when a person dies

  — Reincarnation

• “In thinking about psychedelics, the first thing to understand is that there is a whole range of substances which share that name, and that they are of very different strengths. Some are mild; most marijuana, for example, falls in that category. Mild psychedelics open up the possibilities, but they don’t override the personality. Stronger psychedelics, on the other hand-things like mescaline, or psilocybin, or LSD–are likely to override our existing thought patterns in a very powerful way. If we aren’t prepared for that, it can get pretty hairy. If we don’t have a sufficiently deep jnana (wisdom) practice, some understanding of what’s happening to us, we freak when the entire structure of our existence starts to fall away. That’s why it’s important to do some reading and studying and contemplating in advance, so we’ll have some foothold in the experiences as they start to happen to us.” – From “The Yoga of Psychedelics,’ in Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass, Harmony Press, October 2004.

  — Psychedelics

• Then he got interested in the sacred mushrooms, known in Mexico as Teonanacatl—“the flesh of the gods”; they are the psilocybe mushrooms, which, like a few other varieties, are able to bring about altered states of consciousness. After he started working with Teonanacatl, Wasson retired as vice president of Morgan Guarantee Trust Company, and started traveling around the world studying mushrooms and their religious uses. He found that there were “mushroom stones”—stones carved into mushroom shapes—that were connected with very, very ancient religions. His thesis was that the original yogi mystics of India were mushroom eaters from the mountains in the north who’d come down into the Indus Valley; but the sacred mushrooms didn’t grow there, and so they then developed all the yogic practices—pranayama and hatha yoga and raja yoga—to try to reproduce the same states of consciousness to which the mushrooms had originally given them access.

  — Psychedelics

• Soma-like substances are mentioned in many Hindu systems. In Patanjali’s ashtanga yoga, for example, there are references to the use of chemicals for altering consciousness. Some have speculated that psychedelic mushrooms were at the very root of yogic practices. That’s Gordon Wasson’s theory, at any rate. Gordon Wasson is a mycologist, but before he was a mycologist he had been a vice president of Morgan Guarantee Trust Company in NewYork City. – Ram Dass, Paths to God

  — Psychedelics

• There are basically two kinds of philosophy. One’s called prickles, the other’s called goo. And prickly people are precise, rigorous, logical. They like everything chopped up and clear. Goo people like it vague. For example, in physics, prickly people believe that the ultimate constituents of matter are particles. Goo people believe it’s waves. And in philosophy, prickly people are logical positivists, and goo people are idealists. And they’re always arguing with each other, but what they don’t realize is neither one can take his position without the other person. Because you wouldn’t know you advocated prickles unless there was someone advocating goo. You wouldn’t know what a prickle was unless you knew what a goo was. Because life isn’t either prickles or goo, it’s either gooey prickles or prickly goo.

  — Prickly Goo

• If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen! – Sadhguru

  — Paths of Yoga

• I am 100% Responsible

  — Paths of Yoga

• “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” – Nietzsche

  — Meaning

• There is the true joy of life; to be used by a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; to be thoroughly worn out before being thrown on the scrap heap; to be a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that life will not devote itself to making you happy. – George Bernard Shaw

  — Meaning

• “My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it…” – Nietzsche

  — Meaning

• “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.

  — Identity

• • “The ultimate nature of the mind is pure, clear and unobstructed, like the sky. It is not something that can be grasped or obtained, but rather it is the very essence of one’s being. Recognizing this essence and remaining in this natural state is the ultimate goal of Dzogchen practice.” – Patrul Rinpoche “The Words of My Perfect Teacher”

  — Fate

• God always does that which is best. My param Gurudeva Sitaramdas Omkarnath always said, ‘Whatever happens, it’s always for the best. Sab manga! Sab mangal !’ This was his formula for happiness: Always chant mahamantra and always think that whatever happens it’s for the best. With these two, happiness will be yours! And I have found this to be true. One just has to be trusting and patient.

  — Fate

• “From French essence, from Latin essentia (“the being or essence of a thing”), from an artificial formation of esse (“to be”), to translate Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía, “being”), from ὤν (ṓn), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “I am, exist”).” – Etymology

  — Essence

• “Enlightenment is a destructive process. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” – Adyashanti, a Revered Buddhist Teacher

  — Enlightenment

• If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family - Ram Dass

  — Enlightenment

• The Yoga Sutras, also known as The Eight Limbs (Ashtanga) of Raja (King) Yoga, was the first fully developed and recorded system of yoga. Created by Patanjali around 400 CE, this system influences much of the yoga that is practiced today. Although most of the sutras were originally focused on mindfulness, the yoga practiced in the West today seems to focus more on the body. Somewhere along the way, it seems, we began to practice the movement of yoga in isolation from its original philosophies.

  — Eight Limbs

• A dream which is not understood is like a letter which is not opened. – The Talmus

  — Dreams

• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us, with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details but the quality. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  — Dreams

• Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. – Einstein

  — Death

• Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. – Einstein

  — Consciousness

• At this time, people, want to sit up and do their spiritual processes so that they get the most benefit. Brahma Muhurta means the time of the creator. You can look at it this way: it is the time when you can create yourself. You become the Brahman in the morning, so you can make yourself the way you want yourself to be. – Isha, Sadhguru

  — Blind Faith

• “Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world” – Emerson

  — Beauty

• “The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of Nature, which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.” – Goethe

  — Beauty

• Energy and mass are the same. mass is a projecting of energy. energy before it comes mass is exactly this. ‘OM’ this is that sound.

  — Aum

• The Sound O in Sanskrit is Au so its spelt Om or Aum.. You have pronounced all the sounds that are. Om is god as sound. All images are fragments of image. when we are awake the subject of knowledge and object of knowledge are different than each other. Aristotelian logic prevails. a is not b. the objects are gross objects. they are not self laminated.

  — Aum

• Ou - Dream Consciousness. you are the subject and object of knowledge. Subject and object are the same. The are subtle objects. self luminous. and they change form very rapidly.

  — Aum

• M - Dreamless deep sleep. realm of mystery. consicousness is there. potenital. but also unconscious. the person is asleep. it is consciousness covered in darkness. consciouss which is unconscious. it is not specific. consciousness in relationship to dreamn object or waking object.

  — Aum

• *Attachment is “dö chag” in Tibetan, which literally means “sticky desire”**. There is a stickiness, neediness, dependency, and self-centeredness associated with attachment. It’s “I need you to make ME happy”, as opposed to “I want to make YOU happy”, which is actual love.

  — Attachment

• The word Ashtanga is comprised of two Sanskrit words, “Ashta” and “Anga.” “Ashta” refers to the number eight, while “Anga” means limb or body part. Therefore, Ashtanga is the union of the eight limbs of yoga, into one complete, holistic system

  — Asanas

• And Now, Yoga – Patanjali

  — Asanas

• The Yoga Sutras, also known as The Eight Limbs (Ashtanga) of Raja (King) Yoga, was the first fully developed and recorded system of yoga. Created by Patanjali around 400 CE, this system influences much of the yoga that is practiced today. Although most of the sutras were originally focused on mindfulness, the yoga practiced in the West today seems to focus more on the body. Somewhere along the way, it seems, we began to practice the movement of yoga in isolation from its original philosophies.

  — Asanas

• “If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary on the wisdom of modern man. Whatever the merits of our high degree of literary and universal education, we have lost the gift for being puzzled. Everything is supposed to be known—if not to ourselves then to some specialist whose business it is to know what we do not know. In fact, to be puzzled is embarrassing, a sign of intellectual inferiority. Even children are rarely surprised, or at least they try not to show that they are; and as we grow older we gradually lose the ability to be surprised. To have the right answers seems all-important; to ask the right questions is considered insignificant by comparison”

  — A Seeker

• Leading with energy, intuition, simplicity, and understanding. Its principles help leaders quiet fear, focus their energy, and make wiser, more human-centered decisions in a world increasingly shaped by technology.

  — Why Yoga?

• Leading with energy, intuition, simplicity, and understanding. Its principles help leaders quiet fear, focus their energy, and make wiser, more human-centered decisions in a world increasingly shaped by technology.

  — Shakti

• We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts

  — Meditation

• HOW TO MEDITATE — lights out — fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine, the gland inside of my brain discharging the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as I hap-down and hold all my body parts down to a deadstop trance — Healing all my sicknesses — erasing all — not even the shred of a “I-hope-you” or a Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought comes a-springing from afar with its held- forth figure of image, you spoof it out, you spuff it out, you fake it, and it fades, and thought never comes — and with joy you realize for the first time “Thinking’s just like not thinking — So I don’t have to think any more” – Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums

  — Meditation

• The meaning of the Sanskrit word “mantra” is traditionally defined as that which liberates the mind from its troubles and limitations. A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that are considered capable of “creating transformation”, spiritual transformation.

  — Mantras

• If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen! – Sadhguru

  — Karma

• You don’t really have to do anything, you just have to maintain the space. There are other kinds of practices which you do to build the system to another level. This practice is concentration. – Sadhguru

  — Inner Engineering

• “It is best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still.” – St. John

  — Be Still

• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place. - T.S. Eliot-Ash-Wednesday

  — Words to Live By