Ravi Ravindra Quotes

#1. You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.

Jonah Peretti

#2. 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)

Ravi Ravindra

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

Ravi Ravindra

#4. I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants

Chris Farley

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

Ravi Ravindra

#6. 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)

Ravi Ravindra

#7. Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Albert Einstein

#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)

Ravi Ravindra

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

Ravi Ravindra

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

Ravi Ravindra

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

Ravi Ravindra

#12. 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.

Ravi Ravindra

#13. 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)

Ravi Ravindra

#14. If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. 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)

Ravi Ravindra

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

Ravi Ravindra

#17. I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Mark Burnett