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Maya Tiwari (born April 16, 1952 in Liverpool Village, Guyana) is a humanitarian, world peace leader and author. Also called "Mother Maya," she is an international teacher of Ayurveda, a health activist and the founder of the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and Mother Om Mission.

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That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater self than the physical body, and the cosmic anatomy as I call it is suspended and physical, is almost attached to it but not quite, and you're living in that in-between sphere of apparent reality around you and then the real reality of the infiniteness of it all.

Anatomy, Period, Quite, Real, Self, Thinking

You really look to understanding someone's psyche, and the choices that would best support them, and help to energetically open those areas of their being able to know that everything in life comes to us when our entire organism is clean and clear.

Choices, Entire, Organism, Support, Understanding

When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.

Form, Likely, Receive, Seasonal, Transition, Vulnerable

Women and men are constructed differently, cosmically differently, never mind the physiognomy, but the cosmic memory we carry within us. The purposes we serve, the things that drive us, the things that are important to us are basically different.

Basically, Carry, Constructed, Memories, Men, Mind

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Ancestor, Look, Looks, Nourishment, Simple

We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc. , and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.

Children, Electronic, Healing, Hours, Tends, Yoga

The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

Life, Prayer, Things, Tradition, Wonderful

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

Concious, Delicate, Innocence, Nature, Personality, Sensitive

Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma.

Everyone, Karma, Live, Way

Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.

Divinity, Full, Suffering, Understanding, Ways

I think path in spirituality chooses us. I doubt seriously that we really have much choice in the matter.

Choices, Chooses, Doubt, Spirituality, Think, Thinking

I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.

Brings, Discovered, Purpose, Stones, Variation, Ways

The development of personal awareness is the only thing the human person can control, and once we understand that, a lot of the appendages fall away, and we look at purpose and karma and not get besotted by the karmas of other people because we carry them from life to life and year to year and day to day.

Awareness, Carry, Fall, Karma, Years

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

Ayurvedic, Balance, Medicine, Needs, Resurgence

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

Harmony, Looking, Mentality, Violence

The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.

Ayurveda, Live, Population, Speak, Yoga

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

Important, Jump, Meditation, Mind, Place

A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgmental. It's not accommodating, but it's embracing, there is a difference. To accommodate means it's already condescending, you condescend to accommodate. To embrace is free, it's totally free.

Condescending, Differences, Heart, Mean, Unconventional

Ayurveda is not just about nutrition or herbology, it has a unique tool for diagnosis, diagnosis of understanding the human constitution is different from person to person. Each one has a unique metabolic system.

Ayurveda, System, Understanding, Unique

Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.

Brother, Compassion, Father, Love, Men

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