Inspired By Wisdom

The obstacles that distract thought are the disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. - Patanjali

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. - Seneca

It is precise because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. - Plotinus

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. - Patanjali

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. - Seneca

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. - Plotinus

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world. - Patanjali

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca

We are not separated from the spirit, we are in it. - Plotinus

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience yoga. - Patanjali

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. - Seneca

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have a vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. - Plotinus

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra. - Patanjali

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. - Seneca

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. - Plotinus

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

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. - Seneca

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. - Plotinus

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists. - Patanjali

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. - Seneca