“The material world will make you comfortable, but it will not make you happy. Your arrangement of your world is through the power of mind, and this you have.” ~ Raymond Charles Barker, The Power of Decision Being happy is really a matter of choice, my friend. You can choose to focus on the things…
The Dalai Lama’s response when asked at a public appearance why he didn’t fight back against the Chinese: “Well, war is obsolete, you know.” Then he paused and said, “Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back… but the heart, the heart would never understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and…
“Jealousy, envy, and resentment impoverish the person who feels them, not just morally but energetically. They literally shrink you. To take joy in the well-being of others is to share in the riches of the world. When we dip our cup into the infinite, we are enriched, but the infinite is not diminished. When you…
“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…
“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” ~ David G. Allen Have you ever noticed how we humans tend to get locked into a particular way that something should happen? We come up with a logical sequence of events and decide that’s…
When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. When I asked God for brain and brawn, He gave me puzzles in life to solve. When I asked God for happiness, He showed me some unhappy people. When I asked God for wealth, He showed me how to work hard. When…
“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…
“The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.” ~…
“It has been said: “Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Stillness is really another word for space. Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. It may…
“The quality of forgiveness that burns up all things except beauty is the quality of love.” “The above saying returns us to the Sufi emphasis on love, not as a decoration to our lives, but as the most powerful creative force of the universe. We may spend our whole lives distinguishing real love from passion,…