“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…
“Flexibility is consciously letting go.” ~ Emmy Cleaves Everything starts in the mind, my friend. Tension, tightness, struggle all come about when we resist and let the monkey mind run wild. Things are never as bad as we imagine. Try taking a deep breath and, letting it out slowly, decide to be open to other…
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” ~ Deepak Chopra The keyword here, my friend, is denied. We all have our shortcomings — some more prominent than others. But it’s the ones that we deny about ourselves that bother…
“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…
“Respect dissolves resistance.” ~ Harry Palmer Whenever you resist something, be it a person, place, thing, an experience or emotion, it controls you. You’ll continue to suffer and struggle until you quit resisting. So next time you find yourself suffering ask yourself, “What am I resisting?” Whatever it is, recognize that it holds power over…
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” ~ Nikola Tesla Have you noticed that most people don’t like change? It’s threatening to them. And to some it’s almost as if they feel insulted by it. Rather than being curious,…
“I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don’t feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality,…
“If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.” ~ Swami Vivekananda We live life and we learn. We have to take action and move forward in our life’s journey and, of course, it’s not all going to…
“Patience is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. By patience, we do not mean endurance — as in “grin and bear it.” In any situation instead of reacting suddenly, we could chew it, smell it, look at it, and open ourselves to…
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” ~ Deepak Chopra The keyword here, my friend, is denied. We all have our shortcomings — some more prominent than others. But it’s the ones that we deny about ourselves that bother…