More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
The only one that needs to be fixed is you, but just to understand this simple fact people take lifetimes!
There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
It doesn’t matter who you are, life doesn’t work for you unless you do the right things.
Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.
It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own.
The quality of our lives is determined by our ability to respond to the varied complex situations that we encounter.
we have allowed the nature of our life experience to be determined by our circumstances, not by us.
But when you move into the fundamental dimension of who you are, you are beyond all polarities. You now become blissful by your own nature. You are the master of your own destiny.
Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.
you are responsible for all that you are and all that you are not, all that may happen to you and all that may not happen to you.
Only if you realize you are responsible do you have the freedom to create yourself the way you want to be, not as a reaction to the situations in which you exist.
Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.
the past exists within each one of us only as memory.
If you retain your ability to respond, your memory of the past will become an empowering process. But if you are in a compulsive cycle of reactivity, memory distorts your perception of the present, and your thoughts, emotions, and actions become disproportionate to the stimulus.
If the worst possible events have befallen you, you should be the wisest of the lot.
“I am responsible for the way I am now.”
You come into this world with nothing and you go empty-handed. The wealth of life lies only in how you have allowed its experiences to enrich you.
No adversity is an impediment if you are in a state of conscious response. No matter what the nature of the situation you are in, it can only enhance your experience of life, if you allow it to.
Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.
the more you are able to respond to everything around you, the freer you are!
Responsibility is not compulsive action; it offers you the choice of action.
When entire oceans rise in response to the cycles of the moon, do you think the water content in your own system doesn’t rise as well?
Being responsible is taking ownership of your life.
“My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life.”
responsibility is not a teaching in civics. It is the simplest and easiest way for you to express your own divinity.
everything is here and now. The access for everything is here and now. And it lies only in one’s ability to respond—in one’s ability to experience and express the divine.
my ability to respond is limitless—
No boundary, no burden.
Once this happens, it is not that the cosmos begins to happen your way. Instead, what you are becomes cosmic. This is not transcendence; this is homecoming.
“My responsibility is limitless; if I am willing, I can respond to everything”
That is all it takes to touch the Creator—just willingness, nothing else.
you arrive at yoga only when you realize that your desire is essentially for the limitless,
the fundamental desire within every human being is for boundless expansion.
Once you’ve tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready.
The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.
yoga is the science of creating inner situations exactly the way you want them.
Yoga tells us that we are actually composed of five “sheaths,” or layers or, more simply, bodies.
The first sheath or layer to which yoga draws our attention is the physical body—the annamayakosha, or more literally, the food body.
The second layer is the manomayakosha, or the mental body.
the third layer of the self is the pranamayakosha, or the energy body.
fourth layer called the vignanamayakosha, or the etheric body.
fifth sheath, the anandamayakosha, which is beyond the physical entirely.
when you access this indefinable dimension, it produces an overwhelming experience of bliss.
if the physical, mental, and energy bodies are perfectly aligned, you will find access to the bliss body.
making your inner life blissful is something that everyone is capable of. It cannot be denied to you, if you are willing.
to experience well-being all you need is a certain mastery over these three dimensions of body, mind, and energy.
yoga is also the science of aligning these three dimensions so that you reach the ultimate state of ecstatic union with life itself.
If you employ your physical body to reach this ultimate union, we call this karma yoga, or the yoga of action. If you employ your intelligence to reach your ultimate nature, we call this gnana yoga, the yoga of intelligence. If you employ your emotions to reach your ultimate nature, we call this bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. And if you use your energies to reach the supreme experience, we call this kriya yoga, the yoga of transforming energies.
The source of your life is also the source of every other life and the source of all creation. This dimension of intelligence or consciousness exists in every one of us. The deliverance of every human being lies in finding access to this deathless dimension.
Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
