| Agehananda Bharati |
You don’t learn ethical behavior through yoga and meditation any more than you learn loving your neighbors by playing poker or cello. |
| Ajahn Brahm |
This isn't a thinky, thinky practice. It's a feely, feely practice. |
| Ajahn Chah |
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. And if you let go completely, you will have complete peace. |
| Ajahn Chah |
Like and dislike are of equal value. |
| Ajahn Chah |
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer. |
| Ajahn Chah |
The Heart is the only book worth reading. Listen to your Heart. You don't have to go and look anywhere else. Wisdom is in you. Just like the sweet ripe mango is already in a green one. |
| Anne Lamott |
Almost everything will work if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. |
| Barrie Risman |
Yoga isn’t a quick fix, but it’s a real fix |
| Brené Brown |
Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question. |
| Dalai Lama |
The purpose of life is to be happy |
| Dorothy Hunt |
Do you think peace will come some other place than here? Some other time than Now? In some other heart than yours? Peace is this moment without judgment. That is all. |
| Dr. Seuss |
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you! |
| Gampopa |
May my heart turn to practice. May practice become a path. May this path dissolve confusion. May confusion become wisdom. |
| Georg Feuerstein |
Yoga is like an ancient river with countless rapids, eddies, loops, tributaries, and backwaters, extending over a vast, colourful terrain of many different habitats. So, when we speak of Yoga, we speak of a multitude of paths and orientations with contrasting theoretical frameworks and occasionally incompatible goals |
| John Cage |
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. |
| Leonard Cohen |
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. |
| Mary Oliver |
May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. |
| Mary Oliver |
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? |
| Neem Karoli Baba |
Don't throw anyone out of your heart |
| Ram Dass |
When we follow the breath in meditation, we are focusing on the mechanics of mind, not the content of mind. |
| Rumi |
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. |
| Rumi |
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it |
| S.N. Goenka |
All your life is wasted in reading book after book, like a parrot or mynah that repeats names by rote. |
| S.N. Goenka |
Not dancing when pleasure comes, not wailing when in pain, keeping equanimity with both—this is happiness |
| Sayadaw U Tejaniya |
Wisdom never believes. Wisdom always investigates. |
| Sayadaw U Tejaniya |
Many yogis tell me that meditation is difficult. What they are actually saying is that they cannot get what they want. The problem is craving. |
| Stephen Cope |
We are floating in a sea of other human beings, who—just like us—crave simply to be touched, to be cherished, to be known... In order to be a fully alive human being, you must create around yourself a rich surround of relationship. This surround will evoke you, will call you forth. It will affirm you. It will sustain you. It will challenge you. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Wherever you go, spread your love. Just keep the candle of your love burning and whenever you find an unlit candle, light it up. Wherever a lamp goes, it spreads light. Wherever a flower goes, it spreads fragrance. Wherever we go we should spread love. Love all beings. We don’t have to say, 'I love you,' to everyone. Just be kind, patient, tolerant, forgiving, and soft-spoken. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Music and dance are so integral to yoga that without them yoga is incomplete. I dance and sing constantly in my meditation room. This isn't simply art, but a form of meditation. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Love is not far away; it is as close as your heart. You can find it living there without walking a single step. Love is the only path. |
| Swami Kripalu |
To practice truth, we should decrease our practice of untruth. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Each of us is a lake of love, yet strangely enough we are all thirsty. |
| Swami Kripalu |
The practice of yoga with the kriya of citta and prana is a special type of sadhana. It is called Kripalu Yoga. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Struggle changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person |
| Swami Kripalu |
Seekers who believe they must practice yoga only in the meditation room are under a great illusion. They must practice yoga in society as well. |
| Swami Kripalu |
The highest form of spiritual practice is self-observation without judgment. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Serve with a full heart. By making others happy, you make yourself happy. |
| Swami Kripalu |
Only love can bring unity and remove the separation between all living beings. |
| Swami Kripalu |
In love there are no barriers of language, no costumes, no egos, and no distinctions of any kind. Love is the only worldwide religion. Without love, light cannot be kindled in our hearts, our homes, or in the world. |
| T.S. Eliot |
Every moment is a fresh beginning. |
| T.S. Eliot |
Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now. |
| Thich Nhat Hanh |
In the past I have been a cloud, a river, and the air. And I was a rock. I was the minerals in the water. This is not a question of belief in reincarnation. This is the history of life on Earth. |
| Tilopa |
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. |
| Valarie Kaur |
You are a part of me I do not yet know |
| William Shakespeare |
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
| Yoganand Michael Carroll |
Yoga is not about being good. It's about being real and whole. |