"Illness is not cured by saying the word 'medicine,' but by taking medicine. Enlightenment is not achieved by repeating the word 'God' but by directly experiencing God. Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe as many ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred eons, without realizing Oneness, Wholeness."
-- Shankara

"Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness--enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge."
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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"Enlightenment means life lived in accord with all the laws of nature."
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good."
-- Yoga Vasishtha

"Individual life is the fundamental unit of the life of the cosmos. If the purpose of the individual life is served, automatically and simultaneously the purpose of cosmic life is served to the same degree."
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Doing and suffering being at end, peace alone survives--this expanded to the absolute limit, the wise call liberation."
-- Yoga Vasishtha

"The bliss of the state of enlightenment eliminates the possibility of sorrow, great or small. Into the bright light of the sun no darkness can penetrate; no sorrow can enter bliss-consciousness, nor can bliss-consciousness know any greater than itself."
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Yoga becomes firmly established when it has been respectfully and repeatedly cultivated for a long time."
-- Yoga Sutra, 1.14

"Balance of mind is called Yoga."
-- Bhagavad-Gita, 2.48