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"In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go."
"The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward."
"Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world."
"We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all."
"Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal."
"Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do."
"Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy."
"Environment is stronger than will."
"If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
"If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril."
"Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event."
"The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted."
"When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still."
"The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm."
"Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there."
"The best fighter is never angry."
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."
"Yoga probably makes me a better person."
"Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul."
