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transformation is not incremental self-improvement. Self-transformation is achieved not by morals or ethics or attitudinal or behavioral changes, but by experiencing the limitless nature of who we are. Self-transformation means nothing of the old remains. It is a dimensional shift in the way you perceive and experience life.
Later in my life, I couldn’t help noticing that people coming out of restaurants always had more joyful faces than those coming out of temples.
It has always seemed to me odd that the world does not realize the immensity of a state of “I do not know.” Those who destroy that state with beliefs and assumptions completely miss an enormous possibility—the possibility of knowing.
Instead of leading me to a simplistic answer that I was “this” or “that,” it gradually brought me to a realization that, if I were willing, I could be everything.
It is not the object of your search that is important; it is the faculty of looking. The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
It is just that once one is in touch with this deeper dimension of intelligence,
which is the very basis of our existence here, life turns quite naturally miraculous.
Right now people glorify childhood because a child can laugh and be happy for no reason at all. But I saw that it is possible to be ecstatic in one’s adulthood as well.
Yoga is essentially a way of re-creating the body so that it serves a higher purpose.
It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive.
We are the most comfortable generation to have ever lived on this planet. The rub is that we are definitely not the most joyful, or the most loving, or the most peaceful.
How much longer are we going to live with blueprints that clearly haven’t delivered their promise?
