December 2011
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something...
– Frederick Keonig
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Yoga as spiritual experience
whollyyoga:
Hatha yoga was designed to prepare the aspirant for spiritual experience by perfecting his body….. In the West, it is to be found in a completely degenerated form as a cult of beauty and to longing of youth.
-How to Know God the Aphorisms of Patanjali
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good...
– Buddha
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is...
– Bhagavad Gita
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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a...
– ~ Eckhart Tolle (via jonscofer)
Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else.
The well is...
– Thich Nhat Hahn, “Savor” (via wordslessspoken)
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the...
– Ram Dass
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind....
– Sogyal Rinpoche, from Glimpse of the Day (via ambiguouslysavvy)
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will...
– Marcus Aurelius (via wethinkwedream)
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Tsunami Relief: Help People Not Whalers - Sign the... →
“Right now, the Japanese whaling fleet is barrelling south to hunt thousands of majestic whales, escorted by a 30 million dollar security force paid for out of the tsunami disaster relief fund!
Anti-whaling champions were successfully blocking the Japanese whale hunt — which is exactly why the Japanese government decided to swipe money from relief efforts to stop the activists from bothering...
Urban Yoga Girl: Meditation for humanity →
urbanyogagirl:
(18-24 december 2011; at any hour you want)
#meditation: Share your joy and your good & happy thoughts to the person next to you, to your family, to your neighbours, to all the people all over the world and to Mother Earth.
#prayer: For peace, harmony, love, understanding, health, truth &…
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And yet the universe is an indivisible whole in which all things are...
– (via creandome)
How To Find A Good Yoga Teacher: 12 Suggestions. →
Great little article about finding the right yoga teacher for you.
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Emotional pain, acceptance & Yoga
I was mooching around the internet last week, just generally looking at yoga stuff and I saw a picture of a yoga pose; one of those yoga pictures with a perfectly formed, young, attractive body in an advanced posture, and when I clicked onto the site it had come from I was taken to the blog of an anorexic lady, with lots of posts expressing self hate, self loathing and even a few about self...
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The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never...
– Deepak Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via holdontoyourassbutts)
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When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and...
– Buddha (via blueskiesfluffywhiteclouds)
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and...
– (via bjagg)
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It starts with you.....
Governments cannot change the world, neither can churches, society nor any other authority. Nobody can be forced to show compassion, tolerance, respect and nobody can be forced to change.
Gandhi said “be the change you want to see in the world”.
The world will only be more peaceful, compassionate, tolerant and safe if we each individually commit, every day, to being the best we can be; to...
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Yoga In Sardinia on Google+ →
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Check out our website here →
For information about yoga courses and summer beach classes and holistic therapies in Ogliastra, Sardinia.
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