To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.
SivanandaThe mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
SivanandaThe inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
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