All quotes from
Gregor's book
Emotions
are only a form of the mind. To be
emotional means to react to a present situation according to a past
conditioning.
As
the Yoga Sutra explains, every thought, emotion, and experience leaves a
subconscious imprint (samskara) in the mind.
These imprints determine who we will be in the future. According to the Brhad Aranyaka Upanishad, as
long as liberation is not achieved, the soul, like a caterpillar that draws
itself from one blade of grass over to the next, will, by the force of its
impressions in this life, reach out and draw itself over to a new body in a new
life.
The body
we have today is nothing but the accumulation of our past thoughts, emotions,
and actions.
Our body
is the crystallized history of our past thoughts.
The body
is our vehicle and the storehouse of our past.
It is
through the belief that individuals exercise free will that ego is produced;
and, in turn, ego produces suffering.
The
entire cosmos, including our body-mind complex, is an unconscious machine
operated upon by God. Our self, who is
pure consciousness, is forever inactive.
It merely witnesses.
Time is
the operating system of the human mind; to go beyond time is to go beyond mind.