“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” - Red Haircrow
If you look closely at a tree, you'll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.” Matthew Fox
“When you don't see what you want on the market create it.” - Marion Bekoe
A cyclone derives its power from a calm center…so does a person – Norman Vincent Peale
Qigong is a way of being.
Being soft, yet strong.
Qigong is a way of breathing.
Breathing deeply, yet calmly.
Qigong is a way of standing.
Alert, yet relaxed.
~Nigel Mills
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
That’s just what this storm is all about. - Haruki Murakami
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
There’s always another storm. It’s the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms and firestorms.
Some are fierce, and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately,
but you need to keep an eye on what's brewing for tomorrow. – Maria V. Snyder
A moment of encouragement after a failure is worth more than an hour of congratulations after a success – unknown
“Inhale is the world becoming you – exhale is you becoming the world” – Matthew Remski – Threads of Yoga
Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet…. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth…. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff
Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success. ~Terri Guillemets
“Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.” Steve Maraboli
Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you – Yogi Bhajan
If you give yourself a chance, yourself will give you all the chances – Yogi Bhajan
When the time is on you…start and the pressure will be off. – Yogi Bhajan
The problem at this point, is that there is a problem… Capt. Obvious
Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little – Paul Carvel
You can’t change the wind…you can however, adjust your sails – unknown
The cure for anything is salt water…sweat, tears or the sea – Isak Dinesen
A ship in the harbor is safe…but that’s not what ships are built for… – William Shedd.
“She is a mermaid but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in.” - J. Iron.
Practice and all is coming.” ~ Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
“Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ” ~ Baxter Bell
“The Universe invites you now to be someone who is making a life, rather than a living. Move toward your passion. Express through your daily work and your daily activities what it is that lights up your soul.
Do not believe those who say that you cannot do this. Do it anyway.”
― Neale Donald Walsch
With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me ” – Jarod Kintz
Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.
-Henry Van Dyke
“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
“Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?’
‘Sometimes.’
‘So why don’t you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.’
But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. – Pema Chodron
“May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path.” – John O’Donohue
“In the ordinary choices of every day we begin to change the direction of our lives.”
– Eknath Easwaran
“longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.”
– Stephen Cope
Something that you feel will find its own form.
Jack Kerouac
Love comes into being through useful service to others.” -Emanuel Swedenborg
Poems hover between inner and outer worlds. They’re messages holding the kinds of thinking and feeling
we’re often too shy to speak aloud. – Jane Hirschfield
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” - Vladamir Nabokov
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” Shannon L. Alder
“You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
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