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QUOTES FOR YOGINIS, PART I
from Yogi Bhajan,
master teacher of Kundalini Yoga in the West.
"Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is it a question of being able to do something that most people
can't. Self-healing is a process that occurs through the relationship between the physical and the
infinite power of the soul. It is a contract, a union - that is the science of Kundalini Yoga."
"Every person, whether Easterner or Westerner, has done the 84 postures of Yoga in the womb of
the mother -so you are yogis already!"
"To be very honest, if you want to assess society truthfully, woman is not considered to be a full
citizen.
Even in marriage men normally do not feel it is a privilege to have a strong woman behind them.
Instead, they relate to her as a servant or a piece of property.... As long as humanity does not
learn to respect the woman, there will be no peace on this Earth. There will be war always. In
our society, woman is used as a tool of the advertising industry; her sexuality is exploited to
sell...she is being exploited in millions of ways which she doesn't even know about. The most
graceful being on this planet is treated disgracefully as a playmate, as a sexual toy. So, a woman
can walk one of two roads: the road of the chick or the road of the eagle... Your only saving
factor is to put around yourself the strongest radiance as a woman. Let nothing exploit you."
"Woman is the molder. You are the molder of time, space, and of man: the man of tomorrow,
the child; the man of today, the husband; and the men of yesterday; the ancestors. The entire
society, in theory and reality, is based on the spirit of woman."
"I want women to be strong. I am a believer that when a woman falls, generations fall; when a
man falls, an individual falls. Who is doing it to you? WOMAN is doing to woman. A woman who
cannot defend her daughter, a woman who cannot defend her dignity, a woman who cannot
defend her self -that is who is doing it."
"In a country where woman is insecure, she will give birth to insecure children, which will grow
into insecure men and this will make the nation insecure. Security of the woman is the security of
the nation."
"Only a woman with self-respect can produce saints, heroes, and givers."
from Yogi Bhajan,
master teacher of Kundalini Yoga in the West.
"Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is it a question of being able to do something that most people
can't. Self-healing is a process that occurs through the relationship between the physical and the
infinite power of the soul. It is a contract, a union - that is the science of Kundalini Yoga."
"Every person, whether Easterner or Westerner, has done the 84 postures of Yoga in the womb of
the mother -so you are yogis already!"
"To be very honest, if you want to assess society truthfully, woman is not considered to be a full
citizen.
Even in marriage men normally do not feel it is a privilege to have a strong woman behind them.
Instead, they relate to her as a servant or a piece of property.... As long as humanity does not
learn to respect the woman, there will be no peace on this Earth. There will be war always. In
our society, woman is used as a tool of the advertising industry; her sexuality is exploited to
sell...she is being exploited in millions of ways which she doesn't even know about. The most
graceful being on this planet is treated disgracefully as a playmate, as a sexual toy. So, a woman
can walk one of two roads: the road of the chick or the road of the eagle... Your only saving
factor is to put around yourself the strongest radiance as a woman. Let nothing exploit you."
"Woman is the molder. You are the molder of time, space, and of man: the man of tomorrow,
the child; the man of today, the husband; and the men of yesterday; the ancestors. The entire
society, in theory and reality, is based on the spirit of woman."
"I want women to be strong. I am a believer that when a woman falls, generations fall; when a
man falls, an individual falls. Who is doing it to you? WOMAN is doing to woman. A woman who
cannot defend her daughter, a woman who cannot defend her dignity, a woman who cannot
defend her self -that is who is doing it."
"In a country where woman is insecure, she will give birth to insecure children, which will grow
into insecure men and this will make the nation insecure. Security of the woman is the security of
the nation."
"Only a woman with self-respect can produce saints, heroes, and givers."
| Born at home; August 26, 1929 in the foothills of the Himalayas, Punjab India Died at home: October 6, 2004 in New Mexico, USA |