„The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.“

— Patañjali

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„The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to… failure.“
— John C. Maxwell
„When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.“
— B.K.S. Iyengar
„Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.“
— Coco Chanel
„Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.“
— Stephen Hawking
„[P]eace of soul implies tranquillity of order, with material things ordered to the body, the body to the soul, the personality to neighbor and to God. Peace of mind is subjective tranquillity — a narrower thing. It requires great moral effort to attain peace of soul, but even those who are indifferent to right and wrong sometimes achieve peace of mind“
— Fulton J. Sheen
„Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.“
— Ayn Rand