Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. The warrior uses the power of the brain to be deliberate and the power of the heart to be instinctive.

  2. "When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.”

  3. There was no need to worry about religion or philosophy; the truth was determined by whoever was in power.

  4. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

  5. Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.

  6. Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

  7. Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/

    p. 59

  8. True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

    p. 13

  9. The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion. Both have to work in cooperation with the body.

    p. 29

  10. You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

    When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

    This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

    Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.

    All people are born with different constitutions.Never compare with others.

    Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

    p. 60

  11. Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal… For the yogi, spirit is not separate from body. Spirituality is not ethereal and outside nature but accessible and palpable in our bodies

    p. 18

  12. We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects

    p. 13