The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali—Integral Yoga Pocket Edition: Translation and Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda

But when you feel five minutes as one hour, you are not meditating; you are still concentrating.

The mind is a veil woven of thoughts. It has no substance by itself. If we pull the thoughts out one after the other, when they have all been removed, there is no mind left.

they formulated the yogic diet, free of meat, fish, eggs, stimulants, and excessive use of spices.

47By lessening the natural tendency for restlessness and by meditating on the infinite, posture is mastered. 48Thereafter, one is undisturbed by the dualities.

26Uninterrupted discriminative discernment is the method for its removal. This is called viveka in Sanskrit. You try to understand and see the permanent aspect in everything and ignore the impermanent aspect.

22Although destroyed for one who has attained liberation, it [the seen] still exists for others, being common to them.

Pleasure and pain are but the outcome of your approach. The same world can be a hell or a heaven.

It’s all right to have anything, as long as you don’t let it bring you anxiety and fear. If things come to you, let them come; enjoy their presence. But when they go, enjoy their departure too.

every atom of our bodies we should repeat this mantra: “Dedication, dedication, giving, giving, loving, loving.”