“The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.” IfsWellsUniversePerfectYogaLifetimePerceiveEcstasyHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.” MindBodyLightSpiritEnergyYogaMethodPlanesInfinityHinduismUnifying Author:Frederick Lenz
“You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.” StillsIdeasDesireYogaEssenceHinduismHung Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.” KnowsMeanResponsibilityAcceptingGreaterTeacherOur LivesStreetsKingsYogaTasksEnlightenedHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.” TodayWaitingRoomsYogaHinduismWaiting Rooms Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.” ConsciousnessYogaRealmsDimensionsHinduismNexus Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.” HumansYogaMiseryFasterHinduismTrapsMake You HappyVibrate Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.” StudyYogaWesternUniversityEastHinduismMixturesExplorersAttending Author:Frederick Lenz
“In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.” LightOrderYogaHeatHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.” WorldMeanPainCausesStepsYogaHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.” KnowsWorldMindFocusAwarenessConsciousYogaHinduismRemovalConscious Awareness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.” WorldTryingUseAttentionMistakeTerribleYogaHinduismTransientBindingImprove Your Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.” TwoDifferentTeacherTaughtProductsLateYogaIndianHinduismEasternMixturesComplicationYoga Teachers Author:Paul Harvey
“One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.” ThinkingTogetherNumbersMeditationGrowingEffectsExampleBuddhismYogaCatholicTechniqueHinduismBorrowedBorrowing Author:Ninian Smart