#integral yoga

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ✔️

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“The Sun” (1911) by Edvard Munch

“As you develop more understanding of your Self, you will discover that its positive qualities are bound to conquer all that is negative. There is a boundless ocean of peace and harmony within you. There is boundless light within you, and when you open the window of your soul to that light, the darkness will automatically vanish. This window has become a little rusty, so it will take some time to open. But no matter how long it takes, you must have patience. No matter how many times your mind may falter in this project, you must keep ignoring the negative. Negativity is just a ghost; it is only an illusion. The reality is the supremely positive presence of God within you.” (p. 21-22)

~ The Art of Positive Thinking by Swami Jyotirmayananda

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Yesterday’s practice. Keep moving towards my fears and shame. Open your heart, and let go your fears. Be vulnerable.

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Sri Aurobindo On Himself

I had no urge toward spirituality in me, I developed spirituality. I was incapable of understanding metaphysics, I developed into a philosopher. I had no eye for painting -- I developed it by Yoga. I transformed my nature from what it was to what it was not. I did it by a special manner, not by a miracle and I did it to show what could be done and how it could be done. I did not do it out of any personal necessity of my own or by a miracle without any process. I say that if it is not so, then my Yoga is useless and my life was a mistake -- a mere absurd freak of Nature without meaning or consequence. You all seem to think it a great compliment to me to say that what I have done has no meaning for anybody except myself -- it is the most damaging criticism on my work that could be made. I also did not do it by myself, if you mean by myself the Aurobindo that was. He did it by the help of Krishna and the Divine Shakti. I had help from human sources also.

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Resist your old habits of feeling and thinking; keep on telling yourself:

"No, not so, it cannot be so; I am not like this, I do not need it, I do not want it," and a day will surely come when the entire structure of error and despair will collapse and the ground will be free for a new life. After all, you must remember that all your preoccupations with yourself are only in your waking hours and partly in your dreams; in sleep all is put aside and forgotten. It shows how little important is your waking life, even to yourself, that merely lying down and closing the eyes can end it.

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~ The Katha Upanishad ~

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Sri Ramana Maharshi ~ Mountain Path, Dec. '93.

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj