| 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 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. |
| Ajahn Chah |
Like and dislike are of equal value. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Bhikkhu Pannakara |
In the harshest conditions, peace still finds a way. In the coldest moments, hearts still warm with compassion. |
| 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. |
| Kakuzō Okakura |
One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time. |
| 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 |
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 |
| Rumi |
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. |