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“Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.”

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Author:Carre Otis

“By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.”

“Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.”

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Book:Essence of Instruction (Upadesa Saram): The Pine Forest Revisited

Source: Essence of Instruction (Upadesa Saram): The Pine Forest Revisited

“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.”

“The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.”

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Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.”

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Author:Alan Finger

“Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”

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Book:The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic

Source: The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic

“Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.”

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Author:Christy Turlington