Yoga Quotes
If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.
Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.
If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.
As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.
Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.
When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.
The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.
Follow your love as far as it will take you. Whether it brings you to salvation or damnation.
Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.
You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.
What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.
When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.
Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.
The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.
If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.
When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.
You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.
There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.
Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.