Patanjali Quotations

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.