Patañjali: Concentrate

Patañjali was ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises. Explore interesting quotes on concentrate.
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“Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.”

Patañjali

The Mahābhāṣya

Peace , Dreams , Knowledge , Heart

“The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.”

Patañjali

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

Training , Relation ships , Sense

“The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.”

Patañjali

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

Soul , Failure , Question