YOGA QUOTES
by Leonard Perlmutter
Philosopher, Educator, Author and Founder of the American Meditation Institute
“Attention
is love.”
"Repetition of the mantra can help us make
kinder, more enlightened choices by freeing us from
our self-imposed prison of likes and dislikes."
"Our habitual unhappiness and
insecurity are not caused by a lack of anything.
They are caused by our persistent belief that "I lack."
The mind, therefore, is both our problem and the solution to our
problem."
"Seeing your Yoga practice as
applied quantum mechanics
helps you better understand the subtle effects the
mind and breath have on the health of the body."
"DNA is not destiny.
Sitting atop each gene is a switch called an epigenetic mark
that can be turned on or off by our skillful or unskillful
choices.
When our actions are greased with love,
we can even reverse the proclivities of our genetic karma."
"By practicing Yoga
Science as mind-body medicine,
you can purify the lenses through which you view the world.
With clarity of vision, you can see the blessing
contained in every moment ."
"When you experience the Higher
Knowledge of the ultimate Truth,
your fear, anger, doubt and mistrust will dissolve
and you will begin to joyously fulfill the noble purpose of your
life."
"The most
effective way to reduce health costs is to reduce demand,
and the easiest way to do that is by Self-Care."
"By
expanding the ego
you live free from any form of prejudice."
"Our raga/dveshas make us
prisoners to the mental lenses through
which we view the world. No matter what actually appears before us,
our vision is always skewed, and as a result we suffer."
"The perennial
wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform
our character, conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of
everyday life."
"Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit.
It is a moment-by-moment and thought-by-thought practical guide for living."
"Enormous possibilities for health and creativity are held
captive by your likes and dislikes. Inspecting your desires and
attachments to food and making choices intuitively--with
discrimination--will make your spiritual practice and every other
relationship more rewarding."
“The major crisis of our culture is not one of
IQ---intelligence quotient.
The problem we face individually and collectively is one of WQ---will
quotient.”
“Every thought is only a suggestion of what to
give your attention to.
It is not an imperial command.”
“Meditation leads to Self knowledge, and Self
knowledge leads to the freedom from fear.”
“Yoga Science teaches us to 'include all and
exclude none.' If the outer guru, in the form of a person or
experience, reflects the Truth and light of the inner guru, the advice
is to be heeded and served in thought, word and deed. If a suggestion
from the outer guru is not in harmony with the inner guru as reflected
by the purified discrimination of buddhi, the advice is to be honored
and lovingly rejected with gratitude---for your teacher has just
taught you what not to do.”
When you violate your conscience, that internal
conflict leads to war.
When you serve your conscience, you are a peacemaker both within and
without."
“More than any other single event in human
history, seeing earthrise set into motion a subtle, but deeply
significant and irreversible shift in human consciousness that impels
us toward peace.”
“Only when the higher
jihad is fought with full engagement---and won---will new battles
cease to erupt both within and without. “Only through the higher jihad of purifying the mind in every personal relationship
can a lower jihad be certain
of its Divine inspiration.”
“Meditation is not what you think it is. It’s
a method of accessing unerring wisdom from the superconscious mind so you can experience a happy,
healthy and creatively rewarding life.”
“The practice of one-pointed attention, dharana, increases energy, willpower,
creativity, emotional stability as well as short and long-term
memory.”
“When the nurturing, feminine wisdom of the
Divine Mother guides our actions,
we experience a newfound ease of being.”
“When you face a challenging decision, choose
the intuitive wisdom of the buddhi
and you will experience freedom.”
“Freedom does not mean being able to say or do
anything you want. You experience real freedom and happiness when you
are no longer enslaved to those charms, attractions and temptations
that conflict with your inner wisdom and bring you pain.”
“According to the U.S. government, 53 percent
of all illness is caused by lifestyle choices.
That makes daily meditation and Yoga Science the cheapest and most
practical form
of health insurance available.”
“When you serve the shreya
and sacrifice the preya, you
become One with the metaphoric Father who is perfect in the subtle
world called heaven. This is the secret of happiness and
immortality.”
“If our actions today conflict with our own
inner wisdom, we are assuring ourselves a rendezvous in the future
with a challenging experience that will test anew our attachment to
ignorance.”
“Stress and pain are shadows of the
outstretched hand of the Divine Reality asking you to make a change
that will help you fulfill the purpose of your life.”
“When you recognize and serve your wife or
husband as a reflection of the Supreme Reality, your marriage will
help you attain the highest state of enlightenment.”
“The more you surrender to your inner intuitive
wisdom---regardless of your
likes and dislikes---the greater will be your reward.”
“Grace is a wind that is always blowing. If you
really want freedom and unbounded happiness in this lifetime, set your
sail now! Learn how putting your trust in Yoga’s practical and
verifiable science connects you to a wisdom that never
disappointments.”
“Without meditation, the senses act like wild
horses traveling the roads of selfish desires,
and we suffer. But when the mind is trained to the rein of the higher
Self,
we exhibit discipline, discrimination and the will power of sankalpa
shakti.
Then the senses obey, and we attain the supreme goal of life.”
"Your body is a temple that houses Eternity and the food you
eat is a sacrament--a visible
sign of grace that has manifested from the One invisible, Supreme
Reality. When you base
your food choices on your own intuitive wisdom, that food will
nourish and strengthen your
body, mind and spirit to help you fulfill the purpose of your
life."
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