Ruth St. Denis Quotes

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

I think yoga gives me awareness not just about my body from the outside but also about my internal organs. I feel it's very important because it teaches you self-realization of your body.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin to be aware of the gap - imageless gap of the screen - you have the glimpse. Suddenly you know that you have lived in the dreams of your own creation; and whatsoever you have known as the world was not the world really, it was YOUR world.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these together. Things like karma yoga, bhakti yoga, conscious dying, conscious aging. Consciousness.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.