"Once you have tasted the nectar of Silence, then whether your eyes are open or closed does not matter. Once you have tasted the nectar of that dimension, then it does not matter whether you are sitting in a room or working in an office or the kitchen or talking to people. The quality of aloneness, the quality of motionlessness, the quality of thoughtfreeness does not get affected by physical or verbal movement."

Source : Vimala Thakar (2016). “Glimpses of Raja Yoga: An Introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

Vimala Thakar

#Eye Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.”
“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
“See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.84, Courier Corporation
“If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.”
“Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.”
“One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
“I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.”

Source : Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.
“Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

You may also like: