“The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant or awful. “Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW…
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Peace brings contentment, calm, clarity, compassion, acceptance. We all want to experience peace. Peace, my friend, comes when you release every harsh judgment you hold about everything in life. Peace comes when…
“…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…
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese Proverb Which one of these two energies is running your life, my friend? What do you feel more often, tension or relaxation? Why not relax and accept who you are? I’ll bet everything will go more smoothly if only you…
“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…
“Nonforgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or condition — past, present or future — that your mind refuses to accept. Yes, there can be nonforgiveness even with regard to the future. This is the mind’s refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the…
“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.” ~ Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person Oh, my friend, we’re so good at noticing everything that’s not right. We have this ache and pain…so-and-so always behaves that way…we…
“Deep awakening is giving up the effort to become something different or to experience something different.” ~ Harry Palmer, The Avatar Path Acceptance. Surrender. Letting go. Any way you release resistance brings you closer to the only thing that really matters, Spirit. Relax into contentment, my friend.
“The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant or awful. “Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW…
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~ Carl Rogers As we teachers teach a Bikram Yoga class we see who is able to focus on themselves in the mirror and who isn’t. When necessary we will subtly, continually remind everyone to focus on themselves…