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Words that inspire...

 
 

The mantra Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu helps us to recognize that all beings share the desire for happiness and freedom and inspires us to perform actions that benefit all beings, human and non-human alike.

"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude & your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for."

- Hopi elders


"Year by year the complexities of this spinning world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities."

-Woman's Home Companion,

December 1935


“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time”

- T.S. Elliot



  1. Practice and all is coming…”

  2. - Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

In remembrance of the teachings  and dedicated life of yogi Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009)



"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds.

But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it."

  1. -E.F. Schumacher, Small in Beautiful


  2. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed

citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

-Margaret Mead



“Health is wealth.

  Peace is of mind is happiness.

  Yoga shows the way.”


  1. -Swami Vishnu-devananda



Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves
- slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.


-Thich Nhat Hahn