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Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to.
The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you— these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle.
You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence ...
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gravity and...
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are rooted to the planet right now because of gravity. We have a body today only because of gravity. Gravity is
trying to hold you down, whereas grace is a force that is trying to lift you up. If you are released from the physical forces of existence, then grace bursts forth in your life.
As gravity is active, grace too is constantly active. It is just that you have to make yourself available to it. With gravity you have no c...
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If you are strongly identified with the physical, gravity is all that you will know. But with grace, you h...
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When you are available to grace, suddenly, you seem to function like magic.
but you know you are just beginning to become receptive to a new
dimension of life. This possibility is available to everybody.
An experience may be triggered by an external stimulus, but its origin is always internal—
and there are times when the
same experience can be generated even without an ...
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The expansion of your perception beyond its present boundaries can achieve phenomenal results, bringing a completely new and
seemingly magical dimension to your life.
“Is it very difficult to enhance my perception? Do I have to withdraw to a Himala...
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Not at all. This possibility does not come from sitting somewhere on top of a mountain; it is within you. The only reason it has been inaccessible is that you are either busy or preoccupied with what is happening outside or far too engaged in your own psychological drama. It is just a lack of att...
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Turning inward does not have anything to do with thoughts, ideas, opinions, or philosophies. It has nothing to do with the psychological activity of your mind. Enhancing your perception means e...
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If you are willing to dedicate just a few minutes of your life to this every day, you would...
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process of paying a little bit of attention to your inner nature will transform the quality of y...
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Start by paying attention to everything you think of as yourself just before you fall asleep: your thoughts, your emotions, your hair, your skin, your clothes, your makeup. Know that none of this is you. There is no need to make any conclusion about what “you” are or what “truth” is.
Truth is not a conclusion. If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn.
If you manage to enter sleep with this awareness, it will be significant. Since there is no external interference in sleep, this will grow into a powerful experience. Over time, you will enter a dimension beyond all accumulations.
disciplining, purifying, and preparing it for higher levels of energy
That kind of posture that allows you to access your higher nature is a yogasana.
For every different level of consciousness, or psychological state, your body naturally tends to assume certain postures. The converse of this is the science of asanas. If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.
When it doesn’t function as it should, it
can rob your life of every other aspiration. All your longings just disappear once the body is in pain.
To experience pain and still look beyond it takes an enormous amount of strength, which m...
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It is not only your spine that becomes flexible; you become flexible as well. Once you are flexible, you are willing to listen.
you are willing to listen to life. Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.
A painful body can become an obstacle, and so can a compulsive body.
Asanas help level the physical body down to its natural place.
As you move into deeper dimensions of meditation, your energies will surge upward, opening up more profound dimensions of experience.
It is very important, therefore, that the pipeline of the body is conducive. If it is blocked, it will not work. And so, preparing the body sufficiently before one goes into more intense forms of meditation is very important. Hatha yoga ensures...
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It is becoming a norm in the world that growth happens only painfully. It can also happen blissfully, but that is when both the body and mind have been prepared.
Asanas can prepare you for growth and transformation by equipping you with a solid and stable foundation.
you are looking at yoga as a means of transforming yourself into a receptive possibility beyond the five senses, the hatha yoga needs to be approached in its classical form.
you sit for just a few hours a day with your spine erect, you will see that it will have an unmistakable effect on
your life.
Just the way you hold your body determines almost eve...
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Choose any one thing about yourself: your breath, your heartbeat, your pulse, your little finger. Just pay attention to it for eleven minutes at a time. Do this at least three times a day. Keep your attention on any sensation, but feel free to continue doing whatever you are doing. If you lose attention, it doesn’t matter. Simply refocus your attention. This practice will allow you to move from mental alertness to awareness. You will find the quality of your life experience will begin to change.
The body is like that antenna: if you hold it in the right position, it becomes receptive to all there is in existence.
in yoga, we learn to trust the body. We transform the physical body from a series of compulsions of flesh, blood, and hormones into a conscious process, a powerful instrument of perception and knowing.
But your body is capable of perceiving the whole universe. If you prepare
it properly, it can grasp everything in this existence, because all that happens to this existence is happening, in some way, to this body.
If we get the geometry of the human body right, it becomes capable of reflecting the larger geometry of the cosmos within, and making the cosmic available for our experience. In other words, the human body is capable of downloading the entire cosmos.
view the ingredients which constitute our body, like earth, water, air, and food, as commodities and not as an organic part of the life process.
it is to rain today, some change will happen in your body.
