“…citta is a non-occilating state between thoughts. Hence, one has to increase or enhance this state of pause in between thoughts.” – BKS Iyengar, The Core of the Yoga Sutras
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1.14 Practice takes time, patience, and a positive attitude.
“Persevering practice deeply transforms character and behavior.” – Bernard Bouchard, The Essence of Yoga
1.6 There are five types of thoughts: right knowledge, misapprehension, fantasy, deep sleep, and memory.
“Everything that we experience in life, we experience through the mind. Whatever happens around us, whatever thoughts and feelings arise within, whatever we dream for the future or recollect from the past — all that is a result of the mind’s activity, which falls into five basic categories.” – Devadatta Kali, Managing The Mind
1.7 The sources of right knowledge are direct experience, inference, and verbal testimony.
“We must not mistake right knowledge for absolute truth.” –Devadatta Kali, Managing the Mind
1.2 Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind.
“For a keen student this one Sutra would be enough because the rest of them only explain this one.” – Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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