Georg Feuerstein famous quotes

If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Believe #Heart #Responsibility

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Trust #Healing

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Flower #Civilization #Important

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Long #Mind #Body

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Yoga #Practice #Transformation

Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Yoga #Difficult #Phenomenon

The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Spiritual #Yoga #Keys

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Reality #Mirrors #Doors

For those pure in mind, everything is pure.
-- Georg Feuerstein

#Mind

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.