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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

BKS Iyengar

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

BKS Iyengar

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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake

BKS Iyengar

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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

BKS Iyengar

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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person.

Pema Chodron

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

Pema Chodron

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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda

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Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous attitude - it doesn't respond to a half-dead will! Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you. Then, as you perform your daily activities, you will see that a flood of vitality will move through all your muscles and through your [continue reading...]

Paramahansa Yogananda