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Quotes from Ashtanga Yoga Primer — Baba Hari Dass

1923–2018 India

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Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear, and play.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

Faith and devotion are the foundation on which meditation is built.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

Don't think that you are carrying the whole world; make it easy. Make it play, make it a prayer.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

All sadhanas or methods are for simply tricking the mind. The trick is to not let the mind spread out in a form of thoughts.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

The world is an abstract art. We see it as we want to see it. It is a garden of roses and it is also a forest of thorny bushes and poison oak.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

The aim of life is to attain peace. No one can give us peace. We can't buy or borrow it. We have to cultivate it by practicing yama and niyama (yoga restraints and observances).

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

Within the physical body every human being has a subtle body made up of invisible structures and energies (kundalini, nadis, and chakras); and within the subtle is the causal body out of which the subtle and physical bodies are formed.

Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Baba Hari Dass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.