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1 " I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were. "
― Karan Bajaj , The Yoga of Max's Discontent
2 " I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought. "
3 " All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back. "
4 " Even goodness shackled a person. Every concept bound. We all built houses on the sand, destined to fade away in dust. "
5 " He wasn’t craving happiness. He was seeking something quite different … completeness "
6 " At its peak, man realizes that his mind is always vaguely discontented and is crying for something beyond the world of people, objects, and achievements. Only then begins the journey of involution, of seeking completion within. "
7 " If he wanted to become the universal, he had to transcend this narrow love, these binding attachments that fed one’s sense of self. "
8 " The sound that emerged in his spine was Om, the root in every sound, the word that had vibrated in the act of creation. "
9 " The whole world’s problems are caused by man’s inability to sit quietly by himself in a room. "
10 " man’s soul cries for the infinite in a finite world. That’s why nothing ever satisfies us. "
11 " Yoga stilled the fluctuations of the individual mind’s helpless thought waves, allowing it to see the one unchanging energy, the unborn, un-aging, un-ailing, sorrow-less and deathless state within "
12 " Breathing attentively is yoga. Complete absorption in your work is yoga. Thinking about others instead of yourself is yoga. Anything which makes you forget your small self and become one with the infinite is yoga. "
13 " Thought is energy, desire is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form. So our thoughts and desires just find a new physical body when this one wastes away.” He "
14 " there is birth, age, suffering, sorrow, and death, then there must be something that is unborn, un-aging, un-ailing, sorrowless, and deathless—immortal, as it were. Max "
15 " The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it. "
16 " there is just one energy in the universe. Everything, everyone are just forms of it. When you get enlightened, you see that oneness everywhere, in everything. You realize that a human body, any body for that matter, is just a temporary vessel for that energy to express itself so the body’s birth or death is inconsequential. "
17 " It’s strange to see someone die. One moment they are breathing and moving, and the next moment their bodies are heavy and solid, like stone. Their spirit is gone. It feels random, not like any kind of master plan. "
18 " They’ve just realized sooner than all of us that man’s soul cries for the infinite in a finite world. That’s why nothing ever satisfies us.” Omkara "
19 " Talking of past is like two birds sitting and knitting sweater. Fools’ daydreams. You think only of future, "
20 " Learn peace in India,” said the Israeli. “The whole world’s problems are caused by man’s inability to sit quietly by himself in a room.” Max’s "
