Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.