When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

Distractions arise from habitual thought patterns when practice is intermittent.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind.

Kriya Yoga consists of body discipline, mental control, and meditating on AUM.

Yoga is the neutralization of the alternating waves in consciousness.

For those who have an intense urge for wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Practice is an effort to still the mind’s fluctuations in order to silence the consciousness.

Long, uninterrupted, alert practice is the firm foundation for stabilizing the consciousness.

The witness is Self, pure awareness, which, though boundless and unchanging, appears to perceive creation through the construct of mind.

When the mind withdraws attention from sense experience, the senses receive no impressions from sense objects, and awareness rests in its essential nature.