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Can you accept the moments of anger and fear as guests, be willing to receive them with kindness without feeling obliged to serve them a five-course meal? - Christina Feldman in Compassion: Listening to the Cries of the World |
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle
for him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time—just one, one, one. So you begin. I began—I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand. . . . The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin—one, one, one. MOTHER TERESA |
Nobody can make
you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Guard well your spare moments. They are
like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be
known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful
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To develop clarity of the mind, one should work to develop six qualities or characteristics: wisdom, compassion, energetic, patience, generosity, skillful
Learn how little by little to simplify your life. Only concentrate your efforts on the important and momentous. We have the tendency to create us commitments and to get entangled in things that they don't improve our quality of life but rather they complicate it and they generate us difficulties and estrés. Simplify your life, only give priority to the truly important things of your life and you will be much happier.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say
- Will Durant
When we are relaxed, calm and open like a pool in a glade, the quality of our inner nature stands out clearly. We have a keen and direct perception of ourselves and our interaction with everything that is going on around us. Our energy is well-focused; we can think clearly, and we are able to plan and organize our thoughts effectively. We are self-assured: we know what we want to accomplish, what our obstacles are, and how to dissolve them. We work with ease, moving fluidly, in tune with our work rather than resisting its requirements, simply doing what needs to be done. Our work takes on a vital texture, alive with challenge and fulfillment, and the results of our actions reflect the relaxed quality we bring to them.
- Tarthang Tulku
Quote from Yoga Gems edited by Georg Feuerstein
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
-Swami Vivekananda
Quote from Yoga Gems edited by Georg Feuerstein
The immediate physical benefits of yoga - widely reported in medical journals and the mainstream press - may only be the tip of the iceberg. Regular practitioners of yoga describe a whole host of subtle transformations in their lives, changes that seem more mysterious, more difficult to quantify and even to describe. Many experience moments of sharply increased mental focus and clarity, and heightened perceptual and intuitive powers. Some describe a dramatic increase in energy and stamina, emotional evenness and equanimity. Others report a heightened feeling of connection to an inner self, ecstatic states of bliss, and profound well-being.
Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
The United States has
been left battered and bleeding both physically and emotionally because of
terrorist attacks across the country Tuesday September 11, 2001
The emotional
upheaval will get worse before the wounds heal, says Deepak Chopra.
All available energy
should be aimed in a positive direction. Focus on relieving the suffering –
and on prayer, says Chopra.
“Eliminate every
thought of violence in your consciousness right now. We need to take care of
people and pray,” he says. “This is not an attack on America. It is a
wounded collective soul of the entire planet. If you have even a single thought
of violence in your soul, you will aggravate the situation.”
Detroit
Free Press
Wednesday September 12, 2001
Nicole Volta Avery
Ellen Craeger
For your personal peace, undertake the
practices of self-study, mantra japa and prayer. For the peace
and harmony of the world, make a strong resolution not to hurt others and most
importantly, not to hurt nature. This resolution and the commitment to
carry it out is a great practice in itself. During both of these
practices, maintain a positive attitude toward yourself and toward others.
Stop searching for the faults in others. Don't pollute your mind by
cataloguing the bad behavior and unwholesome activities of others. Don't
waste your time in distinguishing the virtuous from the non-virtuous or in
deciding who is holy and who is a sinner. Simply mind your own business.
Just as you have been trying to surrender both your vices and virtues to God,
let others surrender theirs. If they don't it is not your problem.