Yoga Quote of the Month

"Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a eep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live."  ~ Michael Meade, Storyteller, Author, and Scholar

"Everything that lives is Holy." ~  William Blake, English Poet

"...if I don't look after my body, I'll have nowhere to live." ~ from The Juice Master: Turbo-Charge Your Life in 14 Days by Jason Vale

"Work is love made visible." ~ Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet, and artist

"...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock. " ~ Amma, the Hugging Saint

"...yoga is a path to undo the root of all types of misery through the direct experience of deep, clear, open awareness." ~ Richard Freeman, Yoga Instructor

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." ~ William Blake, English Poet & Painter

"Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. " ~ Baxter Bell

"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." ~ Frederick Buechner

"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?" ~ Tao Te Ching

"Yoga's greatest gift is the vulnerability that fills your tender heart after a deep practice session and the spiritual strength that gives you the benefit of unflappable faith and devotion." ~ Kino MacGregor, Yoga Teacher

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes." ~ Etty Hillesum, writer

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." ~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931

"Yoga is the bringing together of that which was never separate." ~ Richard Miller, Yoga Teacher

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart." ~Carl Jung

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." ~ Phyllis Diller

"As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY"." ~ Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday

"It has taken us our entire lives to arrive at this moment. That all we have is this moment and that love is everything." ~ An interpretation of Patanjali's sutra Atha yoga anushasanam

"The practice itself, done consistently and accurately, is the real teacher." ~ Tim Miller, Yoga Teacher

"Yoga asks you to make peace with the deepest, most terrifying parts of yourself and then make that same peace with the external world." ~ Kino MacGregor, Yoga Teacher

Yoga asks you to make peace with the deepest, most terrifying parts of yourself and then make that same peace with the external world.
~ Kino MacGregor, Yoga Teacher

"Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga" ~ Sri Dharma Mittra, Master Yoga Teacher

"Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.) " ~ Cheri Huber, Zen Teacher

"Through the development of inner knowledge your actions will become pure and then your consciousness, your mind will become graceful and benevolent like an offering." ~ David Garrigues

"What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own." ~ Goethe

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley

"For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth." ~ Sanskrit Proverb

"Life energy cannot flow when you grip too tightly and when you relax you allow life to flow through you." ~ Kino McGregor

"The soul is here for its own joy." ~ Rumi

"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." ~ Frederick Buechner, American writer and theologian

"You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone." ~ Thich Nhat Han, Zen Buddhist Monk

"Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being." ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi Teacher

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman, Philosopher

"Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha, Tat Savitur Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi, Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat. Om. Earth. Atmosphere. Heaven. May we focus our awareness on the alluring radiance of the rising sun, the Vivifier; may it inspire our thoughts and meditations." ~ Savitri Gayatri mantra, Interpreted by Christopher D. Wallis, Sanskrit Scholar

"Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths." ~ Amma

" The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints....[The] man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints.... He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment." ~ Osho

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." ~ Lao Tzu

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." ~ Lin Yutang

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...It is about learning to dance in the rain!" ~ Anonymous

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." ~ Lin Yutang

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built." ~ Rumi

"Asanas are a microcosm of life. They are miniature worlds filled with all the forms of the world at large. Our ability to thrive amidst those forms can be improved through the artful awareness developed in yoga practice." ~ Sharon Gannon & David Life

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? " ~ Jeremy Bentham

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. " ~ Bill Gates

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. " ~ Albert Schweitzer

"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it." ~ Boris Yeltsin

"I thank You God for most this amazing | day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees | and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything | which is natural which is infinite which is yes" ~ e. e. cummings

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein