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"the quieter you become,
the more you can hear"
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Have you ever been driving without the radio on and noticed your thoughts?
Have you ever been on a yoga mat and somehow you realized you weren't 'really' listening to the yoga teacher for several minutes?
Have you ever shut off the TV, put the computer and smart phone down ...and just listened?
What do you hear?
8.10.12 - Inspiring quote from the Upanishads, explaining how your thoughts and actions step by step become who you are and drive your future. A great reminder to be the person you want to be, believe you are that person and allow that person to unfold naturally.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.
7.27.12 -Putting teaching in this perspective, with the emphasis on what the students will learn and take away from the experience is so important. This quote serves a beautiful reminder to Aspire daily to Inspire.
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln
5.13.12 - I absolutely adore Audrey Hepburn, that combined with the fact that over the past few months I've heard this quote by several yoga teachers post savasana and a yoga-teacher-mentor forwarded to me probably knowing that I would love it....it was meant to be that I forever keep this poem with me, especially as I happened upon this picture/poem combo, I just fell in love with Audrey and this quote all over again (I've pasted in my quote journal, my art journal and now in blogiverse)! Enjoy and share!
This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson is from her book, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 (Pg. 190-191)
8.6.11 – It’s been some time since I’ve added a quote that I really loved…there have been many, almost too many wonderful quotes….nothing has spoken to me recently. BUT…my PA (aka, my dad), tends to come to rescue in the most opportune times with thought provoking emails or comments. So, the other day I randomly received an email from him about something he said during his toast at our wedding last year….he realized that his toast words were remarkably close to one of our favorite classical actors…
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
~ James Dean
Along with the above quote…here is something else to ponder…
“Someone once said that the only way he could truly live if he was ready to die. At first that sounded slightly morbid to me but then it made a lot of sense. If someone was ready to die, they would be free of regrets, free of fears of dying. In life, decisions should never be made out of fear. If one was so fearful of not surviving something, then majority their decisions would be made irrationally out of that fear. One would not be truly living and experiencing what life has to offer if they are constantly consumed by worries and regrets.”
~Unkown
4.27.11 - This poem was read by the final teaching group during our yoga finals a few weeks ago, about slowing down, finding peace and maybe relating with the wild things in life a bit more.
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~Wendell Berry
4.4.11 - I'm off work two weeks before I start my new job (btw, I did not take the job above); and in just one day my life slowed down a bit and I was able to 'smell the cherry blossoms' of D.C. on this beautiful 70 degree day! I received this quote in an email today, which gives me inspiration for 2 weeks from now, when my life gets to be busy again with starting a new 'corporate' position and beginning my yoga teaching career.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
3.18.11 - I went on a job interview this morning for a finance position in a start-up company that would be an extremely risky step to take from a financial perspective as well as a challenging decision to make with regards to the direction of my career, for the potential to have significant payouts in the future (both financially, professionally and from a knowledge and experience standpoint). Wow..I'm torn for sure. As I was leaving the building reading my email from the morning, I received the 'daily quote' which was the following. Makes me think ...what is it that I might be 'afraid' of, just take the jump. ???
All glory comes from daring to begin.
~ Eugene F. Ware
2.15.11 - This is a poem my dad (aka 'Pa') sent to me yesterday. My grandmother passed away on February 10, 2011 and as we are all mourning her death, this poem really speaks to the essence that loved ones live on in those that remain living. She will forever live in my heart.
As long as you live, remember-
As long as you are remembered, you live
~Francis Saladino
2.15.11 - I found this quote this evening, it spoke to me as a great savasana quote as in those last moments of savasana I usually feel amazing, refreshed as if I could change the world in that moment by sharing the peace I just created in my body.
Just for Now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your experience. Breathe out whatever blocks you from the truth. Just for now, be boundless, free, with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are - so fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant, just for now.
~Danna Faulds
Other resources with inspiring yoga quotes:
http://yogaholidays.net/magazine/quote.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/yoga-quotes
http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Yoga-page-0.htm
http://www.openmindbody.com/quotes.htm
~ Abraham Lincoln
5.13.12 - I absolutely adore Audrey Hepburn, that combined with the fact that over the past few months I've heard this quote by several yoga teachers post savasana and a yoga-teacher-mentor forwarded to me probably knowing that I would love it....it was meant to be that I forever keep this poem with me, especially as I happened upon this picture/poem combo, I just fell in love with Audrey and this quote all over again (I've pasted in my quote journal, my art journal and now in blogiverse)! Enjoy and share!
This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson is from her book, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 (Pg. 190-191)
8.6.11 – It’s been some time since I’ve added a quote that I really loved…there have been many, almost too many wonderful quotes….nothing has spoken to me recently. BUT…my PA (aka, my dad), tends to come to rescue in the most opportune times with thought provoking emails or comments. So, the other day I randomly received an email from him about something he said during his toast at our wedding last year….he realized that his toast words were remarkably close to one of our favorite classical actors…
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
~ James Dean
Along with the above quote…here is something else to ponder…
“Someone once said that the only way he could truly live if he was ready to die. At first that sounded slightly morbid to me but then it made a lot of sense. If someone was ready to die, they would be free of regrets, free of fears of dying. In life, decisions should never be made out of fear. If one was so fearful of not surviving something, then majority their decisions would be made irrationally out of that fear. One would not be truly living and experiencing what life has to offer if they are constantly consumed by worries and regrets.”
~Unkown
4.27.11 - This poem was read by the final teaching group during our yoga finals a few weeks ago, about slowing down, finding peace and maybe relating with the wild things in life a bit more.
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~Wendell Berry
4.4.11 - I'm off work two weeks before I start my new job (btw, I did not take the job above); and in just one day my life slowed down a bit and I was able to 'smell the cherry blossoms' of D.C. on this beautiful 70 degree day! I received this quote in an email today, which gives me inspiration for 2 weeks from now, when my life gets to be busy again with starting a new 'corporate' position and beginning my yoga teaching career.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
3.18.11 - I went on a job interview this morning for a finance position in a start-up company that would be an extremely risky step to take from a financial perspective as well as a challenging decision to make with regards to the direction of my career, for the potential to have significant payouts in the future (both financially, professionally and from a knowledge and experience standpoint). Wow..I'm torn for sure. As I was leaving the building reading my email from the morning, I received the 'daily quote' which was the following. Makes me think ...what is it that I might be 'afraid' of, just take the jump. ???
All glory comes from daring to begin.
~ Eugene F. Ware
2.15.11 - This is a poem my dad (aka 'Pa') sent to me yesterday. My grandmother passed away on February 10, 2011 and as we are all mourning her death, this poem really speaks to the essence that loved ones live on in those that remain living. She will forever live in my heart.
As long as you live, remember-
As long as you are remembered, you live
~Francis Saladino
2.15.11 - I found this quote this evening, it spoke to me as a great savasana quote as in those last moments of savasana I usually feel amazing, refreshed as if I could change the world in that moment by sharing the peace I just created in my body.
Just for Now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your experience. Breathe out whatever blocks you from the truth. Just for now, be boundless, free, with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are - so fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant, just for now.
~Danna Faulds
Other resources with inspiring yoga quotes:
http://yogaholidays.net/magazine/quote.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/yoga-quotes
http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Yoga-page-0.htm
http://www.openmindbody.com/quotes.htm
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