“If you could see, my sorrowful friend, that the misfortune which has defeated you in life is the very power that illumines your heart and raises your soul from the pit of derision to the throne of reverence, you would be content with your share and you would look upon it as a legacy to…
“Jesus suggested that we bless our enemies. I interpret this as deliberately changing my negative patterns, which I have built through this law of attention, into creative positive patterns that will produce what I really want. I take my present fears and change them into new areas of faith and expectancy of good. I take…
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi Every aspect of life, whether conscious or unconscious, has its ebbs…
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” ~ Bruce Lee You know why the Bikram Yoga formula is so powerful?…
“Just because something has always been done in a certain way is never a sufficient reason for continuing to do it that way.” ~ Clarence Birdseye How would we ever evolve if we just kept doing everything the same way? We wouldn’t! Though we know that things have to change, it doesn’t necessarily make it…
“In the new year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today. Without the stairs of the past you cannot arrive at the future! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan This isn’t to say that you thank just the good things in your past. We all have things in our past…
“…They deny the need to change by making up all sorts of ideas about why their own [structures] are better than others. This has always been the Sufi critique of religious or cultural institutions: These institutions are human creations, intended to serve human development and happiness. The real religion behind all religions, according to the…
“When the teachings tell us to “make friends with our emotions,” they mean to become more attentive and get to know them better. Being ignorant about emotions only makes matters worse; feeling guilty or ashamed of them does the same. Struggling against them is equally non-productive. The only way to dissolve their power is with…
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate…
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut It’s okay to redirect, my friend. Acknowledge your mistake and correct your course. That’s all you have to do. Remember, it’s far better to cut your losses than to continue on the wrong path. Just appreciate…