Inspiration

Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. — The Bhagavad Gita

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E. Frankl

Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem.  – Stephen Cope

Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself — without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind (Bhagavad Gita 2: 47-48).

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” –  Jacob A. Riis

I’m no longer searching, I’m just opening. -Mark Nepo

Each body is  a universe, as good a universe as you could conceive. – Swami Amar Jyoti

“Understanding without practice is better than practice without understanding. Understanding with practice is better than understanding without practice. Residing in your true nature is better than understanding or practice.” —  Upanishads

“We are not human beings seeking a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings seeking a human experience.” – Tielhard de Chardin