Our body is not a fixed package of atoms and molecules—it is a process, or rather billions of simultaneous processes being
coordinated together.
Your inner awareness has primary importance in the reality you are experiencing. It is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality. To be the maker of your reality is your basic viewpoint.
Go beyond conditioning. Struggle only slows down processes. Complete healing depends upon your ability to stop struggling. A new thought can turn you into a new person. We can influence reality with our thoughts. See the self as primary and outward things as secondary. As long as our happiness depends upon objects “out there”, we are their prisoner.
The universe’s electromagnetic field is invisible, all-pervasive, and capable of responding to the slightest change within itself. No part of the field can move without moving the whole. Each of our thoughts affects all other minds. The world “in here” is meant to flow into and merge with the one “out there”. We are all caught in this world like fish in a net. But all nets have holes. Find one, escape through it, and you will see what reality actually is.
“People grow old and die because they see other people grow old and die” – Shankara. Aging might be a creation of the mind that the mind can undo. Not seeing other people grow old seems to prevent us from growing old ourselves. DNA is not really a thing; it is a living memory residing in a thing.
DNA is like a switching station between eternity and all the forms of life that partake of time. DNA can exert control forward in time or backward. The bending of time and life goes far beyond what a human brain can imagine.
“As is the macrocosm, so is the microcosm. As is the atom, so is the universe. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.” You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside yourself.
When we touch a new level of consciousness, a new world is created. Maya means “illusion” or “delusion”. Maya is full of paradoxes. It is everywhere, even though it doesn’t exist. Every atom inside us is more than 99.999 percent empty space. One’s inner sense of “me” is built up of images from the past, all the fears, hopes, wishes, dreams, loves, and disappointments one calls “mine”. However, if you strip all of these images away, something of “me” is still left: the decision maker, the screen, the silent witness. The thoughts and feelings that flow by, like clouds against the sky, are distractions. The real you is the sky beyond.
A person who practices Yoga—primarily through meditation—begins to identify more and more with the silent witness inside. Yoga is said to liberate the seeker from the limitations of ordinary life. The separation between body and mind is healed,
allowing the person to enter into a higher state of functioning, both physically and mentally. Yoga opens up the possibility for uprooting all suffering at its source.
Awareness is the source of seeing. What makes people extraordinary is not anything they do: it is something they are. A life lived truly is the joining of heart and mind. As feelings come, the mind approves and delights in them.
Whenever a person succeeds in joining head and heart, that is Yoga. Every moment will be the best in the person’s life. By thinking, feeling, and acting, a person is altering the universe that is himself. Anything in life can change.
“Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love” – Rumi. To look at your enemy in peace creates a huge moral
effect, because he sees himself in your eyes. The silent witness reflects the truth that he must come to terms with in the end.
You are the sole cause of everything in creation. All is because you are. Reality in different states of consciousness. A siddhi is a mental ability, no different from ordinary thinking except that it runs deeper. One you realize that the world is your own projection, you will be free of it. Our solid world is basically built up from vibrations in empty space.
Gaining the siddhis means freedom of choice. Nature is perfect because it contains all possibilities. Being good is not the same as being whole. The very concept of wholeness means not split into parts, even the basic dualities of good and bad, love and hate, black and white. Duality is unavoidable.
The “play of opposites” can coexist without challenging each other—and that is the secret. For wholeness to be a living reality, one must learn how to expand beyond the field of duality, encompassing the most diametrically opposed qualities of life. “I am” is enough. Since everything is made of consciousness alone, there is nothing in creation that is not myself. Any aspect of reality can be changed by influencing the fundamental layer of awareness that ties all of nature together. If I can change my mind, and if the world is made of the same stuff as my mind, then I can change the world. Inside us is the capacity to command every force of nature, to influence every atom in the universe.