Bryan Kest Quotes
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"
One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.
Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.
As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.
Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.
The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
We are acting on our desire; there is nothing wrong. Just remember if it does not pan out, if our desires go unfulfilled, it's perfect!
Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.
There is nothing wrong with what he said or she said or they did, even though it does not feel good.
Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.
Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!
Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet.
Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!
Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.
There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am.
It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.
If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.
The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.
Jesus said "love," "forgive," have "compassion" and "don't judge." Buddha said "observe," "be silent," and "serve."
