Quotations from books

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 "These lessons - we call them experiences - are not predominantly pleasant, but they have the right mixture of pleasure and pain to help us eventually go beyond both."

"One gives up one´s conditioning. Once it has been given up, and has released its grip on the observer, it will never again return. The observer now spontaneously rests in the present moment, without any limiting past conditioning. This spontaneous freedom, though...."

"A schizophrenic person, from the yogic point of view, is not mad, but sees too much and cannot integrate it."


quotes from "Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy" by "Gregor Maehle"

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