“If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.” ~ Deepak Chopra Can you do that, my friend? Are you willing to give it a try? Can you work on catching yourself in the act of judging, being…
“You are inextricably interdependent, always part of the wholeness, and one with all other life. Trust the foreign; it’s just a hidden part of you in another guise and form.” ~ James Wanless Why not take on the role of neutral explorer, my friend? Neutral explorers are observers, looking for similarities and differences without judging.…
“We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody.” ~ Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other Is it time for redemption,…
“What’s an expert? I read somewhere that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn’t know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn’t admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn’t really know how much.” ~ Malcolm Forbes We can…
“Frequency, precision, and intensity is what makes Bikram Yoga successful.” ~ Emmy Cleaves As the saying goes, “you can walk a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” Well, my friend, that’s what it’s like with BeneFIT’s Yoga. A good studio provides all the necessary elements of Bikram’s formula, but it’s up to…
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” ~ Brené Brown Yes, it can be scary to let yourself be vulnerable, my friend, but on the other side of that fear is where your life will blossom. Love, acceptance, honesty, authenticity, compassion, and more are…
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.” ~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull Your physical senses will only get you so far, my friend, as they can only perceive the physical. But…
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison You know, my friend, another of his famous quotes is, “I start where the last man left off.” Discouragement hits hard at the 11th hour. It’s almost like its testing your desire, like…
“Every human being in the world is gold in the gold mine.” ~ Bikram Choudhury As with all mining, refining, and polishing, the challenges in Bikram Yoga put us on a journey of self-discovery. In every class, as we struggle with and face our physical and mental limits, we, little by little, chip away at…
“The heart’s natural love is the principal requisite to attain a holy life. When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and, invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters-–the germs of diseases-–by…