Ravi Ravindra Quotes

#1. Each place is the right place
the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

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#2. What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us ... (78)

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#3. A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

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#4. Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)

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#5. Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know ... and a desire to predict and control.

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#6. If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy

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#7. Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

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#8. [I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality ... (20)

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#9. Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, ... [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general ... It is rare for a human being to have free will ... (140)

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#10. Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

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#11. If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.

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#12. It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

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