QUOTATIONS 2010 ……..

SPIRITUALITY is largely dependent upon an image of perfection that determines and motivates self discipline. Make your image clear. Then watch how it helps you to grow – not with stress and struggle but naturally, as the flowers grow.

SPIRITUAL ASPIRATION urges us to transform the personality into the likeness of the true self or soul and to allow channelling of the spirit’s light.

SELF MASTERY   -   The way to self mastery is through the gates of Love.

SIMPLICITY is often the signature of greatness.

CATHARSIS  – We all need, either through our own design or through the aid of external circumstances, to cleanse the psyche of the past in order to be free for the future.

TEACHERS – MENTORS offer us guidance and instruction. Depending upon our respect for them, we try to apply the teachings that our own intuition and our own experience must yet confirm.

Sally E. Janssen

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Offering a few quotations of the wise from both eastern and western cultures and from antiquity to the present day. For contemplation. encouragement, guidance and for meditation.

SAMADHI

“The mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and .. when the mind gets to that higher state then this knowledge beyond reasoning comes… All the different steps in yoga are intended to bring us scientifically to the superconscious state of Samadhi…

Just as unconscious work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above consciousness, and which, also is not accompanied with the feeling of egoism…

There is no feeling of I, and yet the mind works, desireless, free from restlessness, objectless, bodiless. Then the Truth shines in its full effulgence, and we know ourselves – for Samadhi lies potential in us all – for what we truly are, free, immortal, omnipotent, loosed from the finite, and its contrasts of good and evil altogether, and identical with the Atman or Universal Soul.”  

  Vivekananda

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 Every culture develops a spiritual system , the purpose of which being to satisfy the individual’s urge, common to us all, to know the Creator.

S. Janssen

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Thou canst not gather what thou dist not sow; as thou dost plant the tree so will it grow.

Laws of Manu

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 With the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

 Jesus

 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. 

Jesus

 All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Jesus

 Do unto others, what you would have them do unto you.

Jesus

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The good and bad fortune of man are not predestined; man brings them on himself by his conduct. The consequences of good and evil follow as the shadow follows the body. 

Kan Ying Phien

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Heaven is sure to give happiness to those who love and benefit other men, and is sure to bring calamities on those who hate and maltreat other men.

Mo Tse

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 “I affirm that I have become aware, not by my own wish, almost against my will, of an existence of another life of far, far greater importance and beauty than this physical one, beautiful and important though that is; that the knowledge of this other life leads to increasing happiness and interest; that it brings one, however slowly and with however many personal stupidities, ignorances and clumsy faults, to a new tolerance, a new sympathy with every Human being alive…”  Hugh Walpole

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Yogis seek to study and apply techniques in the culture of consciousness.

S. Janssen

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Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.

Buddha

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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

St Paul

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Glorious is the fruit of good labour.

Solomon

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For all the unjust deeds that each man has ever done, and for all the men to whom he has done injustice, he pays the penalty in due course.

Plato

To mind one’s own business and not to be meddlesome is justice.

Plato.

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The Essenes affirm that Fate governs all things, and that nothing befalls man but what is according to its determination.

Josephus – Antiquities of the Jews

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Although Yoga has been developed as a system with Indian culture as its base, in essence its purpose, to unite the individual to God, is common to all peoples and spiritual schools. It recognizes and asserts the universal natural urge and subsequent enquiry of humans to know their Creator.

Sally Janssen

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Breath ! that mystical, mysterious, invisible something which, although subtle, is our lifeline to That which has ordained our very existence.

S. Janssen

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As we have been created in limitless human forms and variations so there exist innumerable paths directing us to the One Gateway – our spiritual home.

S.Janssen

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QUOTATIONS ………………ESSENCE OF YOGA -   2009

“Man judges rightly that by his intellect he surpasses the material universe, for he shares in the light of the divine mind….

The intellectual nature of the human person is perfected by wisdom and needs to be. for wisdom gently attracts the mind of man to a quest and a love for what is true and good. Steeped in wisdom, man passes through visible realities to those which are unseen.

Our era needs such wisdom more than bygone ages if the discovereies made by man are to be further humanised. for the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser men are forthcoming.”

Exerpt from the Vatican Council II: Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World. N 15.

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 We live in the eternal Now, and it is Now that we create our destiny.  It follows, that to grieve over the past is useless and to make plans for the future is a waste of time.  There is only one ambition that is good, and that is: so to live now that none may weary of life’s emptiness and none may have to do the task we leave undone.

From the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup

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When all desires that dwelt in the heart are let go, then the mortal becomes immortal and reaches the eternal.  

Katha Upanishad

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories to account for its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! it is our own.

 Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Scientist

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He gains royal power over himself, he gains lordship of mind, he is lord of voice, he is lord of the eye He is lord of hearing, lord of knowledge, He becomes the eternal, bodied in shining ether, the real Self who delights in life, who is mind, who is bliss, whose wealth is immortal peace. 

Taittiriya Upanishad

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“Illusion works impenetrable,

Weaving webs innumerable,

Her gay pictures never fail,

Crowd each other veil on veil,

Charmer who will be believed

By man who thirsts to be deceived.”

Maya - by Emerson

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The life cycle is a lord of beings; it has two paths, the southern and the northern; they who worship by sacrifices and gifts, they verily win the lunar world, they verily return again. Therefore the seers who are desirous of offspring gain the southern path. this is the body, this is the way of the fathers. Some go by the northern path, by fervour, service of the eternal, faith, wisdom, seeking the Self they gain the sun. Thus verily is the home of lives, this is the immortal, the fearless, the better way;  from thence they return not again, for this is the end of the way.   

 Prashna Upanishad

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He who would understand the Plains must ascend the Eternal Hills, where a man’s eyes scan Infinity.  But he who would make use of understanding must descend onto the plains, where Past and Future meet and men have need of him.

From the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup

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 On the Margas:

Margas are like the spokes on the one wheel of Yoga

Though the paths are various according to the various Shastras, all of these lead unto Thee, like rivers flowing into the one ocean.

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The concept of God is limited only by the extent to which an individual can stretch his consciousness.

The soul attuned to Universal influences invites Spiritual Realization or Samadhi.

S.Janssen

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All growth depends upon some sacrifice – the seed must yield its secure shell to allow commencement of growth of the shoot and the root of the future tree.

The snake must shed its skin to grow larger in body.

The flower must risk destruction in order to reveal its precious means of immortalizing itself in the seed.

The personality must suffer yielding some precious habit to allow for a nobler.

One must give love away in order to gain it.

One must protect one’s family or country by being prepared to sacrifice the greatest – one’s life.

S. Janssen

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The ultimate vision and purpose of human life is expressed in the ancient Vedas…

“As from a glowing fire, kindred sparkles come forth thousand-fold, so from the Eternal, manifold beings are born, and return also.”

Mundaka Upanishad

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 From the unreal lead me to the Real

 From darkness lead me into Light

 From death lead me to Immortality.

Upanishads

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In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.

Yogashastra

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 The strongest desire of everything, and the one first implanted by Nature, is to return to its source. And since God is the Source of our soul and has made it like unto Himself…therefore this soul desires above all things to return to him.

 Dante