Wisdom

 

- "When a man has at­tained his own free­dom, how can he be bound by any law? No law in this uni­verse can bind him, for this uni­verse it­self is his." (Swami Vivekananda: Jnana Yoga)

 

- "Humility is the only ritual for a devotee. If thou desire greatness, be humble; no other ladder is there by which to climb." (A. Hart Edwards: The Bustan of Sadi)

 

- "Only after we heal ourselves and accept certain findings are we able to help others and pass on to them the knowledge that we have acquired." (Unknown Author: Tibetan Healing Book)

 

- "House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found." (Charles Johnston: From the Upanishads)

 

- "Karma in its effect on character is the most tremendous power that man has to deal with. Man is, as it were, a centre, and is attracting all the powers of the universe towards himself, and in this centre is fusing them all and again sending them off in a big current. Such a centre is the real man, the almighty, the omniscient, and he draws the whole universe towards him; good and bad, misery and happiness, all are running towards him and clinging round him; and out of them he fashions the mighty stream of tendency called character and throws it outwards. As he has the power of drawing in anything, so has he the power of throwing it out." (Swami Vivekananda: Karma-Yoga)

 

- "Do not feel disappointed when things seem disappointing. Keep the eye single upon the same brilliant future regardless of circumstances, conditions or events. Do not lose heart when things go wrong. Continue undisturbed in your original resolve to make all things go right." (Christian D. Larson: Your forces and how to use them)

 

- "... removing Fear thought from the minds of men, of replacing "I Can't" with "I Can and I WILL". (William Walker Atkinson: Thought force in business and everyday life)

 

- "It is a strange and almost amusing fact that there should be at the same time, on the part of the general public, such a general acceptance of the existence of personal magnetism, on the one hand, and such an ignorance of the nature of this wonderful force, on the other hand." (Theron Q. Dumont: The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism)

 

- "In Vedanta, spirit is called the Atman, the cognizer, the perceiver and the subject. It is our true Self. It existed in the eternal past and will continue to exist in the eternal future. Nothing can destroy it." (Swami Abhedananda: Self - Knowledge (Atma - Jnana))

 

- "Man has paid a high price for civilization. The savage, today, breathes naturally, unless he has been contaminated by the habits of civilized man." (William Walker Atkinson: The Science of Breath)

 

- "Live One Day at a time - Doing the Best you Know How - and Be Kind." (William Walker Atkinson: Reincarnation and the law of karma)

 

- "Therefore true love can never react so as to cause pain either to the lover or to the beloved." (Svami Vivekananda: Karma-Yoga)

 

- "There are three deities, according to the expounders of the Vedas: Agni, whose place is on the earth; Vayu or Indra, whose place is in the air; and Surya, whose place is in the sky. These deities receive severally many appellations in consequence of their greatness, or of the diversity of their functions." (W. J. Wilkins: Hindu Mythology - Vedic and Puranic)

 

- "We may safely state that when people learn to keep the nervous system in perfect order there will be very few cases of insanity, if any, and physical diseases will be reduced at least one-half." (Christian D. Larson: Gift of the mind cure)

 

- "For every ill there is a remedy, because every negative has its own positive, and there is no wrong that cannot be made right." (Christian D. Larson: Gift of How to Stay Well)

 

- "Essentially man is not a slave either of himself or of the world; but he is a lover. His freedom and fulfilment is in love, which is another name for perfect comprehension." (Rabindranath Tagore: Sadhana - The Realisation of Life)

 

- It is the nature of faith to break bounds; to transcend limitations, and take life, thought and action into the universal. (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)

 

- The very thoughts like: "I am meditating," "I am thinking on the Absolute," are within the realm of Sakti. They are the manifested powers of that Eternal Energy. (Swami Abhedananda: The Gospel of Ramakrishna)

 

- "To love everybody with the dearest, the purest and the highest love of the soul becomes a part of life itself when we live in the smile of God." (Christian D. Larson: On The Heights)

 

- "Your life is in your own hands. You may live us you wish." (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)

 

- "It is when we step outside this path that we suffer." (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)

 

- "We are in bondage because we have lived to please the person. Follow the soul and freedom shall come quickly. (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)

 

- "Lightning can but smite your body at worst, not you. The sword can but cut up your body into pieces, not you. The fire can but burn your body, not you. The water can but drown your body, not you. Why fear then? O Thou Soul! You are Master, not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always. You are of God." (A. P. Mukerji: Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consiousness)

 

- "The true desire and the true prayer are synonymous. The true prayer is invariably some immensely strong desire expressed when the human mind feels the sublime touch of the Infinite mind; and the true desire must be in perfect touch with Infinite life in order to be filled with the invincible power of that life." (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)

 

- "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." (Khalil Gibran:The Madman - His Parables and Poems)

 

- "... gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force." (Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha)

 

- "And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world." (Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha)

 

- "This is the small book; both hooks are the work of the Rishi Vashisht, and it is the book for those who are seeking truth but not for the ignorant." (Rishi Singh Gherwal: Yoga Vashisht or Heaven Found)

 

- "... The sick have been healed by only reading it, the poor have attained wealth, and fears have been removed. ..." (Rishi Singh Gherwal: Kundalini - The Mother of The Universe)

 

- "He, Purushottama, is also known by holy study and devout meditation; and either, as the cause of attaining him, is entitled Brahma. From study let a man proceed to meditation, and from meditation to study; by perfection in both supreme spirit becomes manifest. Study is one eye wherewith to behold it, and meditation is the other: he who is one with Brahma sees not with the eye of flesh." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - The Sixth Book)

 

- "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror." (Khalil Gibran: The Prophet)

 

- "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." (Khalil Gibran: The Madman - His Parables and Poems)

 

- "You can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment." (Khalil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet)

 

- "Turn yourself, not away from three best things - Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed." (S. A. Kapadia: The Teaching of Zoroaster and the Parsi Religion)

 

- "A flower needs the herb fairies to become a flower; a person needs love to become a person."  (Vesna Majes: The Tree Guardians)

 

- "Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free.This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details." (Swami Vivekananda: Raja Yoga)

 

- "The mind of man is the cause both of his bondage and his liberation: its addiction to the objects of sense is the means of his bondage; its separation from objects of sense is the means of his freedom." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - The Sixth Book)

 

- "The man of science knows, in one aspect, that the world is not merely what it appears to be to our senses; he knows that earth and water are really the play of forces that manifest themselves to us as earth and water - how, we can but partially apprehend. Likewise the man who has his spiritual eyes open knows that the ultimate truth about earth and water lies in our apprehension of the eternal will which works in time and takes shape in the forces we realise under those aspects. This is not mere knowledge, as science is, but it is a preception of the soul by the soul. This does not lead us to power, as knowledge does, but it gives us joy, which is the product of the union of kindred things." (Rabindranath Tagore: Sadhana - The Realisation of Life)

 

- "These mighty works of Krishna, whatever they have been, have been performed to relieve earth of its burdens: for this he has come down." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - The Fifth Book)

 

- "Victory begets hatred; defeat begets suffering. They that are wise will forgo both victory and defeat. Insult is born of insult, anger of anger. They that are wise will forgo both victory and defeat. Every murderer is struck down by a murderer; every conqueror is struck down by a conqueror. They that are wise will forgo both victory and defeat." (Andre Ferdinand Herold: The Life of Buddha)

 

- "My intellect has been a prey to the desire of married happiness; but I will now so exert myself for the salvation of my soul, that, exempt from human imperfections, I may be exonerated from human sufferings. To that end I will propitiate, by arduous penance, Vishnu, the creator of the universe, whose form is inscrutable, who is smaller than the smallest, larger than the largest, the source of darkness and of light, the sovereign god of gods." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - The Fourth Book)

 

- "Glory to Brahma, who, alike in the destruction and renovation of the world, is called the great and mysterious cause of the intellectual principle (Mahat); who is without limit in time or space, and exempt from diminution or decay; in whom (as connected with the property of darkness) originates worldly illusion; and in whom resides the end of soul (fruition or liberation), through the properties of light and of activity (or goodness and foulness). He is the refuge of those who are versed in the Sánkhya philosophy; of those who have acquired control over their thoughts and passions. He is the invisible, imperishable Brahma; varying in form, invariable in substance; the chief principle, self-engendered; who is said to illuminate the caverns of the heart; who is indivisible, radiant, undecaying, multiform. To that supreme Brahma be forever adoration." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - The Third Book)

 

- "This Vishnu is the supreme spirit (Brahma), from whence all this world proceeds, who is the world, by whom the world subsists, and in whom it will be resolved." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - Book Two)

 

- "Into the city of the King of Justice there are four gateways, O Bird, of which the way of the southern gate has been declared to you." (Wood & Subrahmanyam: The Garuda Purana)

 

- "Anger is the passion of fools; it becometh not a wise man." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - Book One)

 

- "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. - Please just choose what you want. It is only up to you." (Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and how to play it)

 

- "The basis of his (ref: Platon) heresy was, that true philosophy derived its origin from the eastern nations: his doctrine of the identity of God and the universe is that of the Vedas and Puránas; and the practices he enjoined, as well as their object, were precisely those described in several of the Puranas under the name of Yoga." (H. H. Wilson: The Vishnu Purana - Introduction)

 

- "The soul is the human intellect, the link between the Divine Spirit in man and his lower personality." (Annie Besant: The Ancient Wisdom)

 

-  "Beyond the senses are the objects (of senses) and higher than the objects is the mind; beyond the mind is intellect, and superior than the intellect is the great Self, the Atman." (Baldeo Sahai: Essence of Indian Thought)

 

- "Brahman verily is this immortal being. In front is Brahman, behind is Brahman. To the right and to the left. It spreads forth above and below. Verily, Brahman is this effulgent universe." (dr. Karan Singh: Hinduism)

 

- "The story of Ambapali reminds us of the lotus flower – which is sacred to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist religious beliefs. The lotus grows in murky water, but it rises on a long stalk, above the surface, in its glorious bloom. This makes the lotus an appropriate symbol of detachment, being unaffected by the surroundings and relationships, either good or bad. Untouched by the impurity of the slime and slush in which it grows, the lotus symbolises the purity of heart and mind. Like the sacred lotus, Ambapali too, managed to rise above her birth and her immoral life, to achieve spiritual evolution with the grace of the Buddha." (J. P. Vaswani: Saints with a Difference)

 

- "The lord, the creator, the great Yogin, plunging into the one ocean from love of the world," (Julius Jolly:The institutes of Vishnu)

 

- "Fleta, who in her earlier incarnation, took power selfishly into her own hands, became by virtue of that power a black magician: one who has knowledge and uses it for selfish ends ..." (Mabel Collins: The blossom and the fruit; A true story of a black magician)

 

- "But while the Spirit may be discerned only by looking within ourselves, we find that once the mind realizes that the Absolute Is, it will be able to see countless evidences of its action and presence by observing manifested Life without. All Life is filled with the Life Power and Will of the Absolute." (Yogi Ramacharaka: A series of lessons in Ghani Yoga)

 

- "Nature knows what it is about—she is your friend and not your enemy." (Yogi Ramacharaka: Hatha Yoga)

 

-  "When the mind discovers that its powers are inexhaustible and that its faculties and talents can be developed to the very highest degree imaginable, and to any degree beyond that, the fear of failure will entirely disappear." (Christian D. Larson: How The Mind Works)

 

- "Each is building his own world. We both build from within and we attract from without. Thought is the force with which we build, for thoughts are forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In the degree that thought is spiritualized does it become more subtle and powerful in its workings." (Ralph Waldo Trine: In Tune With The Infinite)

 

- "Would you find that wonderful life supernal. That life so abounding, so rich, and so free? Seek then the laws of the Spirit Eternal. With them bring your life into harmony." (Ralph Walde Trine: What All The World`s A-Seeking)

 

- "A man is not wise by much speaking ... He is the wise man who is forgiving, kindly, and without fear." (Wagiswara & Sauders: The Buddha`s "Way of Virtue)

 

- "Prana is in all forms of matter, and yet it is not matter - it is the energy or force which animates matter." (Yogi Ramacharaka: Fourteen Lessons In Yogi Philosophy And Oriental Occultism)

 

- "The true philosopher is the one who would lay no claim to the name whatever, who has discovered that the mystery of life is unapproachable by ordinary thought, just as the true scientist confesses his complete ignorance of the principles which lie behind science." (Mabel Collins: Through the Gates of Gold - a fragment of thought)

 

- "For indeed, although I died, it took ten priests of the temple to accomplish my death, and even then they but ignorantly thought themselves powerful."  (Mabel Collins: The Idyll of the White Lotus)

 

- "Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart." (Mabel Collins: Light on The Path)

 

- "Reading only is not sufficient. It must be brought into action, otherwise it will be wasted like water poured on an invented pot." (M. B. Nimbalkar:Shirdi Sai Baba`s Teaching and Philosophy)

 

- "There are two features that make the psycho-religious system of the "Secret" (Huna) outstanding and set it apart from modern systems of either religion or psychology. First and foremost, IT WORKS. It worked for the kahunas and it should work for us. Second, and but slightly less significant, it works for men no matter what their religious beliefs." (Max Freedom Long: The secret science behind miracles)

 

- "No selfish heart can really be glad. No soul that acts solely for personal gain can enter the spirit of joy; and no man who seeks only his own pleasure and comfort can ever take part in the music of rejoicing. And yet, the glad heart receives far more of everything of worth in life than does the one who forgets gladness in pursuit of gain for self alone." (Christian D. Larson: Just be glad)

 

- "Brahma, in the earlier Vedic books, is a neuter noun, meaning the spell or prayer of the priest and the magic power which it exerts over gods, men, and the universe." (L. D. Barnett: Brahma - Knowledge)

 

- "Our true Self is all-knowing by its nature. It is the source of infinite knowledge within us. Being bound by the limitations of time, space, and causation, we cannot express all the powers that we possess in reality. The higher we rise above these limiting conditions, the more we can manifest the divine qualities of omniscience and omnipotence." (Swami Abhedananda: How to be a Yogi - Vedanda philosophy)

 

- "The real purpose of silence is the development of the art of thinking and working constructively." (Christian D. Larson: Gift of How to Stay Well)

 

- "What man is, and what man does, determines in what conditions, circumstances and environments he shall be placed. And since man can change both himself and his actions, he can determine what his fate is to be." (Christian D. Larson: Matery of Fate)

 

- "Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind." (Charles Johnston: Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali - The Book of the Spiritual Man)

 

- "The Kingdom of God comes not with 'observation' but it is 'within' you." (Swami Mukerji: The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga)

 

- "Buddhism is no theory that the world is a concourse of fortuitous phenomena. It retained the Indian doctrines of rebirth and karma. Karma, "action," is the law of cause and effect applied to the moral world. Every action brings its fruit, either in this life or another." (E. J. Thomas: Buddhist Scriptures)

 

- "Myfyr left it on record, "That the Druids of Britain were Brahmins is beyond the least shadow of a doubt." " (James Bonwick: Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions)

 

- "Ever sincere seeker after knowledge, therefore, who desires intellectual, moral or spiritual development, must first learn to discriminate between spirit and matter, soul and body, and then realize the all-knowing Divine Self who is the eternal foundation of the universe." (Swami Abhedananda: Self - Knowledge (Atma - Jnana))

 

- "For when the Self shines, all shine." (Rishi Singh Gherwal: Yoga Vashist or Heaven Found)

 

- "And the day was heavy in the Summer Land for the reason that a quest was in his heart, but the mind kept no record." (Marah Ellis Ryan: The Druid Path)

 

- "The fool, not knowing that the truth is seated in himself, is bewildered by the Shastras, - a foolish goatherd, with the young goat under his arm, peers into the well." (Wood & Subrahmanyam: The Garuda Purana)

 

- "You should be able to say: Yes, I have certainly thought thoughts before, but my thinking took the form of allowing thoughts to flow and merely carry me along. Now I am beginning gradually to become inwardly active in my thoughts." (Rudolf Steiner: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity)

 

- "Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. ... And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." ... Thus I became a madman." (Khalil Gibran: The Madman)

 

- Shri Sai Satcharita’ is the Bible of Sai devotees in every sense of the word. ... The book is essentially a Pothi or Gatha. ... The book has been rendered into English, chapter by chapter, verse by verse and line by line and the rendering is by any reckoning a magnificent achievement. (dr. Indira Kher: Shri Sai Satcharita)

 

- "The sanest thinkers, the best investigators hold no theory, not even the one dearest to them, that they are not ready and willing to throw away when a better one presents itself, whether that better one be discovered by themselves or other persons." (Yogi Ramacharaka: The Science of Psychic Healing)

 

- "Without earnest longing of the heart no one can see God by mere repetition of His Name. One may repeat His Name, but if one's mind be attached to lust and wealth, that will not help much." (Swami Abhedananda: The Gospel of Ramakrishna)

 

- "Work through freedom! Work through love! … Therefore true love can never react so as to cause pain either to the lover or to the beloved." (Swami Vivekananda: Karma-Yoga)

 

- "The magnetic energy of the person, formed by a combination of his physical and mental force, like all other forms of magnetic or electric force, tends to run in currents, and to be transmitted in waves. The personal atmosphere of the person is, in fact, composed of many waves of magnetic energy, circling around the confines of his aura, a constant wave-like motion being maintained, and a rapid rate of vibration always being manifested." (Theron Q. Dumont: The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism)

 

- "Wishing to become greater than the asuras, they became truthful. Previously they and the asuras spoke truthfully or falsely, as they thought fit; but gradually, whilst they ceased from lying, the asuras became increasingly false; the result was that the gods after protracted struggles gained the victory." (W. J. Wilkins: Hindu Mythology - Vedic and Puranic)

 

- "We should always strive to elevate our consciousness to a purer state. If we really want to have a direct vision or experience of the universal form of God, then we have to clean the old memories, experiences, thoughts and convictions from our mental storehouse. Otherwise, in place of universality, limited and distorted pictures will be painted by negative and non creative thoughts in our mind." (C. B. Satpathy: Baba May I Answer)

 

- "The moral of all this is: "Whatsoever you do, do it with all your might. Do it in earnest. Do one thing at a time, and do it well." " (William Walker Atkinson: Thought force in business and everyday life)

 

- "The wise love light and not darkness. When you travel the journey of Life, remember, always, the end of the journey. When souls return to the light, after their sojourn on earth, they wear upon their more subtle bodies, like searing, hideous scars, the marks of their earthly sins - these must be obliterated, and they go back to earth to be cleansed." (William Walker Atkinson: Reincarnation and the law of karma)

 

- "The true living Sufi is the one who has eliminated anger and lust. Constantly he remembers God even while breathing in and out. He avoids useless talk and he enjoys happiness in solitude...He is entranced with love of God and he has lost his consciousness in meditation." (Marianne Warren Ph. D.: Unravelling The Enigma: Shirdi Sai Baba in The Light of Sufism)

 

- "Do not let your head run faster than your feet; and do not live mentally in the future while you are working in the present." (Christian D. Larson: Gift of the Mind Cure)

 

- "Then, of what worth am I before you? O Merciful One, what is the glow-worm before the Sun, and a dirty streamlet before the (mighty) ocean?" (Das Ganu Maharaj: Sai Hari Katha)

 

- "Only the intelligent and thoughtful members of such a community would be able to grasp the fact that these exceptional individuals were really not only not "abnormal," and inferior to type, but that they were really "supernormal," and superior to type." (Swami Bhakta Vishista: The Invisible Powers)

 

- "Rest under the protecting wings for ever and ever. You are great. Compared to your nature this world is but a pinch of star-dust. Lightning can but smite your body at worst, not you. The sword can but cut up your body into pieces, not you. The fire can but burn your body, not you. The water can but drown your body, not you. Why fear then?" (A. P. Murkerji: Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness)

 

- "Black, in the astral colours, stands for hatred, malice, revenge and "devilishness" generally. It shades the brighter colours into their lower aspects, and robs them of their beauty. It stands for hate also for gloom, depression, pessimism, etc." (Swami Panchadasi: The Human Aura - Astral Colours and Thought Forms) 

 

- "How many energies there are in man, no one knows; but there are so many that even the keenest observers of human activity have found it impossible to count them all. And as most of these energies are remarkable, to say the least, and some of them so remarkable as to appear both limitless in power and numberless in possibilities, we may well wonder what man will become when he learns to use them all." (Christian D. Larson: Your Forces and How to Use Them)

 

- "Thoughts of Love will attract to us the Love of others; circumstances and surroundings in accord with the thought; people who are of like thought." (William Walker Atkinson: Thought Vibration)

 

- "Study yourself. Find your strong points and make them stronger as well as yo weak ones and strengthen them." (Theron Q. Dumont: The Power of Concentration)

 

- The central teaching of the Gita is the attainment of Freedom, by the performance of one's Swadharma or duty in life. (Swami Swarupananda: Srimad-Bhagavat-Gita)

 

- "The Western student is scarcely to be blamed for thinking of the typical Yogi as an emaciated, fanatical, dirty, ignorant Hindu who either sits in a fixed posture until his body becomes ossified, or else holds his arm up in the air until it becomes stiff and withered and forever after remains in that position, or perhaps clenches his fist and holds it tight until his fingernails grow through the palms of his hands. That these people exist is true, but their claim to the title "Yogi" seems as absurd to the true Yogi as does the claim to the title "Doctor" on the part of the man who pares one's corns seem to the eminent surgeon, or as does the title of "Professor," as assumed by the street corner vendor of worm medicine, seem to the President of Harvard or Yale." (William Atkinson: Science of breath)

 

- She knew what The Secret Is. (Florence Scovel Shinn: Your Word is Your Wand)

 

- "In your body is a garden of flowers" (Rabindranath Tagore: Songs of  Kabîr )

 

- "Each is building his own world. We both build from within and we attract from without." (Ralph Waldo Trine: In Tune With The Infinite)

 

- "So, it will be seen, the human aura is a very important and interesting phase of the personality of every individual. The psychic phase of man is as much the man himself as is the physical phase - the complete man being made up of the two phases. Man invisible is as much the real man as is man visible. As the finer forms of nature are always the most powerful, so is the psychic man more potent than the physical man." (Swami Panchadasi: The Human Aura)

 

- "Most people consider life is a battle ... but it is not a battle, it is a game." (Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of LIfe and How to play it)

 

- "When love beckons to you, follow him ..." (Khalil Gibran: The Prophet)

 

- ""Marvelous feats performed by Yogis through Yoga." I have received many letters asking: "How can that be done?" The answer is, they always do this through the Kundalini (The Divine Mother) by awakening her from her sleep, for then any one can have supernatural power - this is her gift with unfoldment." (Rishi Singh Gherwal: Kundalini - The Mother of The Universe)

- "We cannot tell just what is meant by the word "Spirit," for we have nothing with which to describe it. But we can think of it as meaning the "essence" of Life and Being - the Reality underlying Universal Life." (Yogi Ramacharaka: A Series Of Lessons in Ghani Yoga (The Yoga of Wisdom))

 

- "At birth the first breath of life is our direct supply, our life line with the universal power - life itself. As this force is electric in nature, so then we live, move and have our being through electric energy. So long as this energy is established and flows through without obstruction we are in tune with the universal supply of life. When our magnetic field is able to maintain ample contact we receive knowledge, wisdom and contentment with the ability to achieve success. (William E. Gray: Know Your Magnetic Field)

 

- Raja yoga is generally based on directing the life force to bring the mind and emotions into balance. Raja Yoga ("royal yoga", "royal union", also known as Classical Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga) is concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation (dhyana) to further one's acquaintance with reality. (Swami Vivekananda: Raja Yoga)

 

- "The true pathway of life is the eternal path of an endless ascension the soul rising ever and ever into higher and higher states of existence. It is the path of wisdom and light, the path of freedom and truth the straight and narrow path the path leading directly toward the spiritual heights ..." (Christian D. Larson: The Pathway of Roses)