Patanjali Quotes

Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

Peace and love, peace and love!

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.