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)
Wisdom, Spirituality, Spiritual Wisdom
What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)
Love, Knowledge
Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)
Heart, Mind, Meditation
[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)
Motivation, Practice
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)
Mind, Body, Mindfulness
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