Quotes
The teaching that is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for the brain.
Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing
the right way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.
Yoga Bhajan
The way that will relieve your woes on the physical plane will also take you to the highest spiritual realization. And the way is simple. No resistance.
Thaddeus Golas
"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."
Gautama Buddha (c. 563 - c. 483 BC)
"The ass is heavy, but the shoulders are strong"
Scotts response to Helen in Yoga class. After being asked to lift into lolasana from navasana, Helen remarked that her "ass was too heavy"
"Amazing how seemingly small things in our lives can change our whole outlook. Amazing how our outlook can change the big things in life."
Scott Page
"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace."
--- Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart."
--- Marcel Morin
"We have overstretched our personal boundaries and forgotten that true happiness comes from living an authentic life fueled with a sense of purpose and balance."
- Dr. Kathleen Hall
"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink."
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
" There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid."
Ghandi
"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome
whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight
in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
- Mahatma Gandhi
In the beginning mindfulness takes away worries and fears about past and future and keeps us anchored in the present. In the end it points to the right view of the self.
Ayya Khema, "Be an Island"
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire cat. 'I don't know,'Alice answered. Then,' said the
cat, 'it doesn't matter.'"
---Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes"
Jack Handey
"When we can not find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
"The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility."
Swami Rama
Kindness is greater than wisdom. Realizing this is the beginning of wisdom."
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after."
Henry David Thoreau
"We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable
distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love."
Salman Rushdie
"Success and good health are blessings. Failure and illness teach patience, humility, and compassion. Thus, they too are great blessings."
Anonymous
"Unless we change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."
Chinese Proverb
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
Virginia Satir
"Open your mouth and you're wrong."
Zen Saying
The fool tries to control his mind. How can he ever succeed? Mastery always comes naturally to the man who is wise and who loves himself.
-Ashtavakra Gita 18:41
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Kahlil Gibran
"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
Eric Hoffer
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
Socrates
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla."
Mitch Ratcliffe
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
"A wish is a desire without energy"
Paramanhansa Yogananda
"You've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution."
Unknown
He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress..."
Bhagavad Gita 6.32
"There are two different kinds of people in this world: those who finish what they start, and"
Brad Ramsey
"At 211 degrees water is hot. At 212 degrees it boils. And with boiling water comes steam, and steam can power a locamotive. That extra degree makes all the difference."
Sam Parker & Mac Anderson
"Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire"
Wayne Dyer
"If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers."
Homer Simpson
"Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies"
Cora Harvey Armstrong
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified..."
Samuel Johnson
"Find peace within yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be."
Anonymous
"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
Chinese proverb
"I am more than I appear to be, all the world's strength and power rest inside me."
Robin Sharma mantra from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
It is not because something is difficult that we fear to attempt it. It is because we fear to attempt it that it is difficult."
Heard in Yin class with Patricia Vamos
"A believer is never disturbed because other people do not yet see the fact which he sees"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
"There is only one success. "To be able to spend your life in your own way."
Anonymous
"Look for the positive lesson in everything."
Gary Null
"By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind."
The Sutra of Hui Neng
"All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody... The same blood flows through us all the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same.
See no difference, see all the same."
Neem Karoli Baba
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Unknown
Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything. Let come what comes, and accomodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine.
If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens. Don't fight with what you experience,
just observe it all mindfully.
-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"
"You are a success when you clearly understand that failure is an event, not a person - that yesterday ended with last night, and today is a brand-new day."
Zig Ziglar
"You are a success when you can look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude."
Zig Ziglar
"When the mind is controlled and still, what remains is the soul"
B.K.S. Iyengar
"The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind."
B.K.S. Iyengar