The safest place for the mind is in the past.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 27

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Hāna is the giving up
of the reliance on Asmitā
being perceived as if
the heart of one’s self.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 25

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

That’s our starting point…
This curious conjunction
of being Human and
yet human Being.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 6

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

More usually the past dominates the present.
Through Yoga Sādhana we work towards
the present dominating the past.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Yoga is about seeking a relationship
with that which experiences,
rather than seeking experiences.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

We can build
bridges of fear,
or we can build
bridges over fear.
The choice is ours.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Yoga is about creating
new responses, especially
when experiencing familiar
arisings from old stories.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 50

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

What you are looking at is coloured
by where you are looking from.
Where you are looking from is coloured
by what you are looking at.
So the mind may know or not know, 
where it is actually looking from,
or what it is actually looking at.
Or even not know that it doesn’t know
the nuances inherent in what and where.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 17

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Building banks to channel
the flow of the river of
Kleśa is Kriyā Yoga.
Building a dam to block
the flow of Kleśa as
we journey upstream
going back to the source
of the flow is Aṣṭāṅga Yoga.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 10

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Kriyā Yoga is more about
working with the symptoms.
Aṣṭāṅga Yoga is more about
working with their cause.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 2

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

The Section on the means
to help do something for
the practitioner starting
with an agitated psyche.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Satya is about how we use truth
rather than truth in and of itself.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 36

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

The Section on the assimilation
of what thinks it perceives,
with the source of perception.
– Paul Harvey introduction to Yoga Sūtra Chapter One

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Now,
you follow what follows,
the teachings of Yoga.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 1

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

At all other times we identify with
the fluctuations within the mind.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 4

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

From this state,
a clarity of being,
as seeing is from the
source of perception.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

Yoga arises from
the containment of,
our propensity to fluctuate.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 2

Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra

We can experience an absence of
thirst for the ephemeral Guṇa
when the recognition of the
eternal Puruṣa pulls us more.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 16

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We never ‘give up…’,
we can only ‘stop…’,
because something
else pulls us more.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 15

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Rāga is more about passion
for the outcome rather than
passion for the action in itself.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 7

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Saṃskāra always looks
to our past experiences
to determine our choices
for our future actions.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 9

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An awareness of an
absence of awareness
is in itself an awakening
in awareness of awareness.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 20

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Dispersion is a habit
that pulls us away from
the habit of containment.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 9

Taking care within the ‘small‘ arisings
is directly related to our capacity to
take care within the ‘big‘ arisings.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 2

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What is it we are prepared to give up,
in terms of that we know we know?
In order to be open to experiencing,
that which we don’t know we know.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 25

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