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If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.
My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.
Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.
Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.
The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.
I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'
It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.
Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.
A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef!
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.