By: gpat65

gpat65 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 02:11:56 +0000

Fascinating and Educational

By: Delaney

Delaney — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 01:56:31 +0000

Good takeaways.

By: Mystic Manifesting

Mystic Manifesting — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 01:53:37 +0000

A book to be studied, not read, to engineer your life Yesterday I cut two oranges to juice for my morning smoothie. As I was juicing one of them, I heard myself say, “This orange is BAD. It’s so dry.”Option 1: “It’s so dry I’m getting less than a quarter cup. Instead of needing only two oranges, I’m going to have to juice four. What a ripoff. I’m paying double for oranges. And now I have to go to the store to get more oranges. What if they’re bad, too?”Option 2: “It is what it is: a dry orange. I’ll just have to juice four instead of two. Better get another bag of oranges.”Sadhguru writes, “…whatever the events and situations around you, you don’t get crushed by them; you ride them.” And, “To mold situations the way you want them you must first know who you are. The crux of the matter is that you don’t yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as ‘myself’ is just an accumulation. Your body is just an accumulation of food. Your mind is just an accumulation of impressions gathered through the five senses. What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you… You are trying to live your life through what you have gathered, not through who you are. What’s more, you are not even a hundred percent conscious of what you have gathered!”That’s what this book is about. It’s about understanding your true, divine self and that everything that happens to you happens internally. Most people go through life letting external events dictate who they are and how they should feel. They spend most of their time in memories of the past or in imaginal futures, usually of a bad kind. Instead of eating from the Tree of Life, we eat continually from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and make judgments based on where our experience falls. The dry orange is evil. We also tend to discontinue growth and solidify over time as we acquire beliefs: “Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others. All that happens the moment you believe something is that your stupidity acquires confidence.” This is so true. The more I learn about something, the more I realize how ignorant I am.”Every thought that arises in the mind has its roots in data you have already accumulated. The data may be gathered consciously or unconsciously…your intellect is perpetually immersed in the past. In such a state, nothing new is now possible. And so, the intellect loses its edge and becomes a trap.” And, “The very seat of your experience is within you, but your perception is entirely outward bound.”So what is yoga and how does it help us evolve? I’ll let the author answer.”…the fundamental desire within every human being is for boundless expansion… When their longing finds conscious expression, we call this yoga.”"The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence…yoga is the science of creating inner situations exactly the way you want them.”"When you are in yoga, it means that in your experience, everything has become one. This is the essence of the science. This is also its deepest aim.”"Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses.”"So in yoga, we learn to trust the body. We transform the physical body from a series of compulsions of flesh, blood, and hormones into a conscious process, a powerful instrument of perception and knowing.”"The entire yogic process is aimed at aligning oneself with the natural longing of life to expand in an unlimited way… Yoga means to experience the mental and physical process distinctly, not as the basis of yourself, but as that which is caused by you.”"So the quality of your life is always decided by how you experience life, not by what life offers you.”"The yogic practices, which involve postures, breath, attitudes of mind, and energy activation, are all essentially oriented toward aligning the first three layers of the body: the physical, the mental, and the energetic body. It is only in aligning them that you find access to dimensions beyond the physical–to the fundamental life energy itself.”Two years ago I basically hit rock bottom. Life seemed ridiculous and futile. I knew I had to do something or I would have to leave the planet. I didn’t want to be here. So I began studying New Thought writings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I spent hours every day studying, meditating, thinking, disciplining my mind. I changed my negative thoughts into positive thoughts. I transformed myself, and I continue because I have a long way to go. I used to look back on my life and think, “What a crappy…

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