Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.