Quotes Tagged "yoga"

Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.

Imagine how much more crazy money would drive us if we could each drive more than one car at the same time.

Catch me in a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

I FOUND MYSELF LIVING FOR THE ONES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

Color breathes life into my soul.

Some of us would take our time, if we knew that we are rushing to our deaths.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

Don't be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness - reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

You were right. I finally found you. Though I would see your face in visions from time to time, this agreement is hard on me still. I don’t know why we do it this way. Why we choose to suffer over the freedom of the astral plain, over an expanded consciousness and boundless awareness. Why can’t I forget you? I’m doomed to long for you with every birth. To chase you until I catch you. And when I do… bliss.

If you look deeper into anyone's eyes, you will see yourself.

If you look deeply into anyone's eyes, you will find yourself.

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda