Pearls of Wisdom from this Sanskrit course called the "Lumious Shabda" (sound as light & awareness) with Manorama:
- meditation is when God talks with us
- what is silence? the absence of thought. experiencing what you are beyond thought
- love yourself, looking outside of yourself for love is fragile. we are the only ones that go all the way with us
- when something negative happens, don't give it more power. finish your karma, and don't create more
- language is everything
- the contradiction of reality is existing in this realm
- the silence of unknowing is important to sit in to let the knowing come
- there needs to be a fall to learn. let me give you a place to fall. you don't need to know everything
- confusion is the partner of clarity
- you don't need to solve the problem, just take the next right step
- yield in the interest of harmony
- stay engaged. do something. everyday
- breath is the one thing that is always with you
- seek to be aware of what is immediate and in our thought
- the more common something is, the more you have to study what it means ex:the concept of "love"
- slow and steady. you can't drink the ocean with one gulp
- the difference between meditation and sleep is consciousness in meditation
- practice being dead and you will transcend this form
- sanskrit is the language of vibration
- peace is within your own capacity. we have to be peace
- attention without tension
- tongue placement is how sanskrit is described/written
- use what is needed and not more
- the extent you can pull in is the most you can put out
- be curious
- patterns show everything
- give a little time each day to study yourself, very few people really know themselves
- we are pure energy
- intimacy is the grand union
- to the extent you live is how you will die or shift out of this form
- to learn of death, you must study life
- sit with intuition born of wisdom to guide right action
- thinking creates anxiety, focus energy beyond the mind
- not the answer, but the next right question
- strength to walk directly through something, there are no short cuts. you must go through the center of it
- explore possibilities. how could the other persons point of view be true?
- the key to happiness is yourself
- nobody like meditation. it is uncomfortable. take comfort in knowing this
- conserve your energy and then skillfully decide how to expend it
- step up- find your footing in what is needed
- trust that it is enough to pose the question-the answer will be drawn to you
- follow the threads of your deepest hearts longing
- yoga should never be a dividing factor
- yoga is not a phase, it is a way of being
- mind your own business- what is our business but to know who we are
- if God wanted to straighten out someone else's ego, don't you think he would have done it a while ago?
- learning is its own reward
- what has a beginning, has a middle, has an end. AUM cycle is in everything
- when you can see the cycle of something, you are no longer in it and there lies the freedom. you are beyond the cycle
- life gives us plenty of practice partners
- to the extent that sounds have silence, that's how powerful it is
- word is associated with life, light, God, and manifestation
- AUM is pure sound vibration. ocean of energy
- the inner music is uncreated, uncaused, without an instrument or a player. it is spontaneous, silence, unstruck vibration of pure energy. it is the sound of life. the cosmic vibration-connection to true self
- once you are interested in yoga, you are never bored again. any moment to yourself, you can listen to the cosmic music within
- how can the darkness ever hold suite when the light of knowledge is there?
- did you ever know a time that you were not? and we still don't know what we are at the time
- energy that is united with consciousness is realized energy
- when Shakti dances, she never takes her eyes of Siva
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