Patanjali Quotes

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

We are wiser than we know.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.