Barbara Stoler Miller > Quotes

“The turnings of thought” (citta-vṛtti) refers to the totality of mental processes—conscious, subconscious, and hyperconscious—not simply to the faculties of intellect, recollection, or emotion.”
― Barbara Stoler Miller, Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

“For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali”
― Barbara Stoler Miller, Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

“It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.”
― Barbara stoler miller

“Patanjali’s method for achieving insight is far from the mystical ecstasy of a poet like St. John of the Cross or the ritual ecstasy of a shaman in a trance. It is instead a contemplative intensity that unbinds the constraints of everyday experience.”
― Barbara Stoler Miller, Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali