the essence of yoga...

Free yourself from anger and desire, which are the causes of pain and conflict, and thereby make yourself whole. This is the essence of yoga; this is the means by which you come to know the soul, and thereby attain the highest spiritual state. Learn to meditate. Close your eyes; calm your breathing; and focus your attention on the center of consciousness. Thus you will master the senses, the emotions, and the intellect - and thereby free yourself from desire and anger.

The Bhagavad Gita

be what you really are...

We are always comparing what we are with what we should be. This measuring ourselves all the time against something or someone is one of the primary causes of conflict. Now why is there any comparison at all? If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you really are.

Krishnamurti

out of conflict is disorder...

As long as the brain, which is so heavily conditioned, is measuring, "the more," "the better," moving psychologically from this to that, it must inevitably bring about a sense of conflict, and this is disorder.
Not only the words more and better, but the feeling, the reaction, of achieving, gaining - as long as there is this division, duality, there must be conflict. And out of conflict is disorder.

Krishnamurti

to be...

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to be.

Rabindranath Tagore

we are trying to achieve an aim...

An animal, a child and an ignoramus are slaves to their desires. They want to satisfy them immediately, whatever the time, the place or the circumstances...How can a man be distinguished from them? Before satisfying his desires, a man takes into account the time, the place and the circumstances, because he is trying to achieve an aim.

Swami Prajnanpad

happiness lies in contentment...

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Mahatma Gandhi

shadow in pain...

To understand pleasure is not to deny it.
We are not condemning it or saying it is right or wrong but if we pursue it, let us do so with our eyes open, knowing that a mind that is all the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow in pain.
They cannot be separated, although we run after pleasure and try to avoid pain.

Krishnamurti

we are free already...

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already.
Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
Every idea that we are happy or unhappy is a tremendous delusion.

Swami Vivekananda

who will save you?

Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you?
Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.

Swami Vivekananda

purifying contact with infinity...

Man must understand that when he cuts himself off from all stimulating and purifying contact with infinity, and no longer relies on it for his subsistence and his health, he risks madness; he tears himself asunder, and divorces himself from his very substance.

Rabindranath Tagore

rhythmic dance of incessant creation

Man has lost his inner perspective, he measures his greatness by his size and not by his
vital attachment to the infinite; he judges his activity by his own movement and not by the serenity of perfection, not by the peace that exists in the starry vault, in the rhythmic dance of incessant creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

the language of beauty...

What does it matter if we do not understand the exact meaning of the grand harmony?
Is it not like the bow player who touches a string and at once releases every resonance?
This is the language of beauty, this is the caress that comes from the heart of the world and goes straight to our hearts.

Rabindranath Tagore

divine music within you...

The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves,
but the loud senses drown the delicate music,
which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we
can perceive with our senses.

Mahatma Gandhi