var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! // To add more quotations, continue with the pattern, adding to the array. Remember to increment the Quotation[x] index! Quotation[0] = "I realised that a weakened body was an obstacle for the efficient expression and working of the mental powers that a clean and healthy body was an important condition for clear thinking and concentration. Only one who is harmonious and well-balanced in body and mind can develop spiritual powers to a maximum degree.

Goswami."; Quotation[1] = "Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

B.K.S. Iyengar."; Quotation[2] = "Wholeness is free exchange of energies. Wholeness is the breaking down of barriers. As long as there is a fear barrier you cannot be whole. One must face fear as an essential part of oneself. Try to penetrate to the meaning of fear.

Eugene Halliday"; Quotation[3] = "To MEAN what one does is to give one's life 'meaning'. Most civilised people are polite and do not mean what they say or do, and so have 'meaningless' lives. Say what you mean. Feel what you mean when you say it.

Eugene Halliday"; Quotation[4] = "When we're trapped in the thinking mind, we are always one thought away from where the action is.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[5] = "Love is the will to work to develop the potentials of being.

Eugene Halliday"; Quotation[6] = "Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

T.K.V. Desikachar."; Quotation[7] = "People sometimes ask me what difference practice has made in my life. The answer is it's changed everything for me. And, in a funny way, it's changed nothing.

Lama Surya Das."; Quotation[8] = "The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda.

Cyndi Lee."; Quotation[9] = "The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's three components: body, mind, and spirit.

Stella Weller, Yoga."; Quotation[10] = "Hatha yoga is not merely a means of acquiring a sound, strong and vital body, but also a reliable method of acquiring happiness and harmony and above all of developing that inner strength, which enables man to bear sorrow, pain and failures with equanimity.

Goswami."; Quotation[11] = "Hatha yoga is not merely a means of acquiring a sound, strong and vital body, but also a reliable method of acquiring happiness and harmony and above all of developing that inner strength, which enables man to bear sorrow, pain and failures with equanimity.

Goswami." Quotation[12] = "Our practices allow us to stand aside from our daily lives for a moment, and to take a God's-eye view of what we're doing here.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[13] = "Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' in our lives.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[14] = "My life is a creative act - like a painting, or a concerto.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[15] = "'Enough is enough'. That's contentment!

Ram Dass."; Quotation[16] = "In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[17] = "Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[18] = "If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

Ram Dass."; Quotation[19] = "We have known experientially the spiritual planes of reality, and the experience always comes with the feeling, 'I'm home'.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[20] = "When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[21] = "Coming into the plane of Soul-awareness is coming home.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[22] = "Humour is the ability to see one reality from the perspective of another.

Ram Dass."; Quotation[23] = "Pure consciousness untouched by any modifications and aware only of itself always responds adequately in every situation.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[24] = "Consciousness and Will are not two factually separable entities. They are two aspects or properties of the Absolute. Consciousness is that aspect of the Absolute in which objects appear. Will is that aspect of the Absolute which initiates change within consciousness or its objects..

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[25] = "To gain and maintain Reflexive Self-conscious freedom one must continually say to oneself: 'It is the Self which is consciousness itself which is looking at this thing, considering this idea. This Self I am. I return to the Self'.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[26] = "When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell."; Quotation[27] = "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell."; Quotation[28] = "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell."; Quotation[29] = "Eternity is a dimension of here and now. The divine lives within you. Live from your own centre.

Joseph Campbell."; Quotation[30] = "Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. Throw off yesterday as a snake sheds its skin.

Joseph Campbell."; Quotation[31] = "Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. To refuse the call means stagnation. What you don't experience positively you will experience negatively.\"

Joseph Campbell"; Quotation[32] = "The goal of the hero trip down to the jewel point is to find those levels in the psyche that open, open, open, and finally open to the mystery of your Self being Buddha consciousness or the Christ. That's the journey.\"

Joseph Campbell"; Quotation[33] = "Do not seek enlightenment unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.\"

Sri Ramakrishna"; Quotation[34] = "It is not very easy to create interest in a concept so abstract as the Absolute. By definition the Absolute has had all interest washed away from it. The Absolute, the Infinite, the Eternal, cannot interest the time-orientated finite relative mind. Yoga is the joining together of the finite with the infinite.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[35] = "The word 'Yoga' has practically the same meaning as the English word 'yoke'. To yoke is to join one thing to another. What is it that is being joined in Yoga? And to what? The short answer to this is that Yoga is the joining together of the finite with the infinite; that is, the joining together of the individual consciousness of man with the absolute consciousness of his source. The source of all created beings is the infinite power, with infinite properties, which in a word we may call philosophically the 'Absolute'.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[36] = "Philosophy, religion and Yoga all aim to restate man's original relation with his source. Thus, when we hear the word 'Yoga', we are not to think it refers merely to some strange Indian or Oriental activity quite alien to the Occidental mind. The Occident has produced many great minds deeply practised in the procedures which in India and the East would be categorised as proper to Yoga.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[37] = "Yoga aims to provide a means whereby the inert may be shown that activity is a possibility, whereby the activist may be shown that balance is a possibility, and the balanced shown that freedom is at hand.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[38] = "The way inwards and upwards is the way of Yoga. But this inwards and upwards way is not the way of a pathological negative withdrawal. It is not the negative involuted way of the mentally sick. It is the way of the positive man who, having seen the meaning of the world, is determined to fight his way back to full consciousness of his position.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[39] = "Yoga aims to transcend the level of reactive processes and to regain the pure activity of original free will. And it aims to do this by releasing consciousness from identification with external things and events, and from body reactivity.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[40] = "Yoga, then, begins with our physical organism. It examines its structures and functions. It observes the ways in which energy flows within it. It sees that nervous energy is released either by a stimulus or by deliberate act of attention. Especially it observes the intimate link between the function of breathing and the play of emotion. It is a most interesting fact that emotion and breathing and the action of the heart are so closely linked, that although most people cannot control the action of the heart and the play of the emotions directly, yet they can influence these by assuming control of the breathing process. Slow, equal breathing calms the emotions and steadies the action of the heart.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[41] = "The illumination of one Yogi does not illuminate all the souls in the universe, although it increases the possibility of finding a teacher. Samkhya marks out the steps the Yogis take. The Yogis aim to break the identification of consciousness with the form-creating activities of primary substance. The way of Yoga is the reverse of the way of universal manifestation.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[42] = "But Yoga says that if we really desire to gain freedom we must break identification with everything except pure consciousness. Here we must be very careful to understand what is being said. To break identification with the thing is not to break the thing itself. It is to release consciousness from the erroneous idea that it is dependent for its well-being upon a given thing to the extent that consciousness cannot be released from that thing without destroying it. This concept requires deep meditation. The key to Yoga-Bhoga is here.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[43] = "Yoga is simple, as real religion is simple. We have merely to break identification of our consciousness with its objects, and especially with that group of ideas which has been inserted into us, from whatever source, that leads us to believe that we are, each of us, separated cells, having no fundamental identity one with the other.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[44] = "On the completion of the identification process at the lowest level, the restraints imposed on consciousness by this identification give rise to a desire for escape. This desire may lead to the pursuit of all kinds of objects or activities, whatever may have had to offer the mind some diversion from consciousness of its bondage. All of this same desire may lead to the study of the way out of this bondage, by the breaking of identification which causes it. The way out is Yoga. Samkhya philosophy has described the steps we must take.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[45] = "The Self, or pure consciousness, and that this infinite substance, are aspects of the Absolute. Understanding of this is the precondition to Yoga attainment. For if this were not so there will be no release from the presentation of forms in consciousness, no attainment of freedom. The Samkhya dualism of pure consciousness and primary substance may be viewed as aspects of the Absolute.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[46] = "Yoga practice will confer power, but to harbour egoic desire for power is to defeat one's highest purpose. Beyond every egoic power there is the greater power of higher beings, who, by rejection for the desire for power, have attained their highest development.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[47] = "'The Observer is not the observed' or 'Consciousness is not its object'. The full utility of this governing concept can be appreciated only by meditating on its implications, and by applying these in practice. Certain materialists believe consciousness to be merely a byproduct of the activity of the brain. If this were so then there would be no possibility of separating consciousness from its objects, and Samhjya philosophy would be false and Yoga impossible.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[48] = "Identification and especially with the ego-idea, is the cause of the belief that each one of us has in his own separativity from others. Ego-life is the life we are to be prepared to lose if we are to find the other, fuller life that ego obscures. If we are prepared to lose this little life, when we have broken identification with it we shall find it's still there, insofar as it is essential, but now transformed by the richness of the infinity of new relations into which it has entered, and all illuminated by the light of regained pure consciousness.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[49] = "The consciousness(Shiva) does not itself move. But its presence as watcher acts as a catalyst. Without it the movement of primary substance(Shakti) would be unintelligent. In conjunction with pure consciousness primary substance evolves and involves intelligently towards its goal. Here we have to look at the beginning of creative activity from two standpoints, one, that of the pure consciousness(Shiva), the other that of the primary substance(Shakti).

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[50] = "At each level consciousness may identify itself with that level's manifestations. At the very lowest level it is identified with external material objects. Once this lowest level of identification has been thoroughly experienced, it is time to reconsider one's position (this is the meaning of repentance, to rethink one's situation). And having reconsidered once position, to re-orientate oneself back towards one's source.

Eugene Halliday."; Quotation[51] = "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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