Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

that the moving breath is like the waves of the sea-constant but moving-therefore not a thorough challenge for dharana. You are ...

made flesh, on this earth. It brings the discovery of the individual soul. It brings awareness of every cell in one's being. Fro ...

retention of breath after exhalation opens the gap in the curtain of time. No past, no future, no sense of passing present. Only ...

Padma Mayurasana Chapter 6 BLISS The Divine Body ( Ananda) ur Inward Journey has now taken us to the innermost core of our being ...

tent, by reference to one's role or primary function in society-! am a priest, a warrior, a merchant, a servant, a carpenter, a ...

only the Soul is left. The final, correct asana is a true expression of "I am That, That is God." This expression is felt only w ...

When we first asked the question, "Who am I?" what we were truly hoping for was to discover an enduring identity, beyond role or ...

from the unconscious and memory confuse it further-a wish, a regret. But there are more enduring patterns of interference that I ...

It is this idea that we live in a totally topsy-turvy world that gives rise to the saying that what is day for the ordinary man ...

because he perceived a soul identical to his own within. We others simply cannot. We are like a man who has put his shirt on ins ...

I cannot stress sufficiently that the Five Afflictions are interwoven into the fiber of all our beings. They are not like defect ...

house, but you are a beggar. I am right, but you are wrong. It is, in ef­ fect, igno�ance (not knowing) raised to the level of a ...

and allows us to see places we would not otherwise have seen. I am grateful to the table I am writing on. It makes this book pos ...

help them is to reform our own deeds, and then we may well discover that all mankind is much of a muchness, one essence common t ...

to ignorance. Our ego is the most intimate and interior part of our­ selves that most of us know. If ego perishes, we fear that ...

is the innermost soul. The soul is divine, nonmaterial, perfect, and eternal. In other words, it does not die. Discover what doe ...

bration of the joy of life itself. Dvesa (aversion) is an emotional repul­ sion and flight from pain, manifesting as prejudice a ...

(avidya) of separation between Creator and created. It is truth incar­ nate. It is truth in spirit. It is the divine marriage of ...

practice we have learned hitherto. We have to refine what we already can accomplish and add new depth and subtleties in order to ...

partisan, borderless perception of the planet earth that changed their lives and led them to try to impart their experience thro ...