October 19, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/19/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.


~Benjamin Disraeli


October 18, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/18/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.


~Carol Welch


October 17, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/17/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.


~Carl G. Jung


October 16, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/16/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.


~Martha Graham


October 15, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/15/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.


~Agnes de Mille


October 14, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/14/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

~Irene Claremont de Castillejo


October 13, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/13/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889


October 12, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/12/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

~Alfred Adler


October 11, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/11/2008


SACRAL CHAKRA
Svadhisthana, 2nd Chakra


To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

~Francesco Guicciardini


October 10, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/10/2008


ROOT CHAKRA

Muladhara, 1st Chakra


And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

~Confucius


October 09, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/9/2008


ROOT CHAKRA

Muladhara, 1st Chakra


To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.


~Katherine Paterson


October 08, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/8/2008


ROOT CHAKRA

Muladhara, 1st Chakra


Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.


~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands


October 07, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/7/2008


ROOT CHAKRA

Muladhara, 1st Chakra


I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

~Henry David Thoreau


October 06, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/6/2008


ROOT CHAKRA

Muladhara, 1st Chakra


There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.

~Elizabeth A. Behnke


October 05, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/5/2008


ROOT CHAKRAMuladhara, 1st Chakra


A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

~Llewelyn Powers


October 04, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/4/2008


The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.


~Marcel Proust


October 03, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/3/2008


A life which is whole, noble and full of clarity is an imperative for survival. It is not a utopia nor a luxury, but a necessity.


~Krishnamurti


October 02, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/2/2008


Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.


~The Buddha


October 01, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/1/2008


Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily; If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.


~Eknath Easwaran


September 30, 2008



Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/30/2008


Who sees all being in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.


~Isa Upanishad


September 29, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/29/2008


No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.


~Krishnamacharya


September 28, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/28/2009


Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.


~Mahatma Ghandi


September 27, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/27/2008


When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.


~Goenka


September 26, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/26/2008


This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go.


~Katha Upanishad


September 25, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/25/2008


Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.


~David Williams, Ashtanga teacher


September 24, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/24/2008


Do your practice and all is coming.


~Sri K Patthabi Jois


September 23, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/23/2008


Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.


~Desikashar


September 22, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/22/2008


When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.


~Hatha Yoga Pradipika


September 21, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/21/2008


Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

~The yoga sutras of Patanjali


September 20, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/20/2008


When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.


~Chinese proverb


September 19, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/19/2008


The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

~B.K.S Iyengar


September 18, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/18/2008


Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.

~Hatha Yoga Pradipika


September 17, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/17/2008


Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

~B.K.S. Iyengar


September 16, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/16/2008


"Your work is to discover your world andthen with all your heart give yourself to it."

~Buddha


September 15, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/15/2008


"You yourself, as much as anybodyin the entire universe,deserve your love and affection."

~Buddha


September 14, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/14/2008


"We are what we think.All that we are arises withour thoughts. With our thoughtswe make the world."


~Buddha


September 13, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/13/2008


"There has to be evil so that goodcan prove its purity above it."


~Buddha


September 12, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/12/2008


"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

~Buddha


September 11, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/11/2008


"The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration."


~Buddha


September 10, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/10/2008


"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

~Buddha


September 09, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/9/2008


"Of all the worldly passions, lust is themost intense. All other worldly passionsseem to follow in its train."

~Buddha


September 08, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/8/2008


"Hatred does not cease by hatred, butonly by love; this is the eternal rule."


~Buddha


September 07, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/7/2008


"Everything changes, nothingremains without change."


~Buddha


September 06, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/6/2008


"Even death is not to be fearedby one who has lived wisely."


~Buddha


September 05, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/5/2008


"Anger will never disappear solong as thoughts of resentment arecherished in the mind. Anger willdisappear just as soon as thoughtsof resentment are forgotten."


~Buddha


September 03, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/3/2008


The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.


~Andrew Bennett


September 02, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/2/2008


Do whatever your heart leads you to do - but do it!


~Truman X. Jones


September 01, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/1/2008


Up, you mighty people, you can accomplish what you will.


~Marcus Garvey