"With steady practice of the eight limbs of yoga,
impurities are destroyed, discernment grows,
and the light of Self knowledge dawns."

Patanjali Yoga Sutra II.28

"Teach what is inside you,
not as it applies to you, to yourself,
but as it applies to the other."

Sri Thirumalai Krishnamacharya

Pleasure or pain are aspects of the mind only. Our essential nature is happiness. But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Self. It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Happiness is not of yesterday,
happiness is not the product of time,
happiness is always in the present, a timeless state."

J. Krishnamurti

"You do."

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

"The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been."

Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Do not meditate - be!
Do not think that you are - be!
Don't think about being - you are!

Sri Ramana Maharshi

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, "Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere."

Shunryu Suzuki

"The spiritual aspirant must swim upstream, against the current of habit, familiarity and ease."

Eknath Easwaran