Georg Feuerstein Quotes

#1. Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment.

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#2. Attitudes are enduring tendencies in your mind that show themselves in your behavior as well as your speech. Yoga encourages you to examine all your basic attitudes toward life to discover which ones are dysfunctional so that you can replace them with more appropriate ones.

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#3. For those pure in mind, everything is pure.

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#4. Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

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#5. Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

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#6. If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization ... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts ... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation.

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#7. Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

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#8. In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." - B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15

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#9. A disharmonious mind is disturbing in itself, but sooner or later it also causes physical problems.

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#10. Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define.

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#11. Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

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#12. So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

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