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Yoga Sutras

Patanjali’s sutras on the mind, attention and stillness. 5 reads — articles, idea threads and micro thoughts to think, save, and grow.

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An object is perceived, or not perceived, according as the mind is, or is not, tinged with the colour of the object.

— Yoga Sutra 4.17, tr. Charles Johnston · Yoga Sutra Daily

Hate is the resting in the sense of pain.

— Yoga Sutra 2.8, tr. Charles Johnston · Yoga Sutra Daily

By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the fixed pole-star comes a knowledge of the motions of the stars.

— Yoga Sutra 3.28, tr. Charles Johnston · Yoga Sutra Daily

Ceasing from self-indulgence is conscious mastery over the thirst for sensuous pleasure here or hereafter.

— Yoga Sutra 1.15, tr. Charles Johnston · Yoga Sutra Daily

Through purity a withdrawal from one’s own bodily life, a ceasing from infatuation with the bodily life of others.

— Yoga Sutra 2.40, tr. Charles Johnston · Yoga Sutra Daily