A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Free Your Mind – As Rumi said: “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
Free Your Mind
Tag Archive for practice
Plant Good Seeds
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Plant Good Seeds – As acclaimed yoga teacher David Swenson said, “The more we practice the more fertile we become, but it does not mean that we are spiritual. It just means we are fertile. The choices we make next are the seeds that we plant.”
Live in Gratitude
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Live In Gratitude – As John F. Kennedy said, “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
Release It All
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Release It All – According to Buddha, “You only lose what you cling to.”
Release It All
Marry Love and Skill
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Marry Love and Skill – As John Ruskin said, “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
Consciously Evolve
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Consciously Evolve – As C.S. Lewis said, “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.”
Kiss The Earth
A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Kiss The Earth – As Rumi said, “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”
Pranayama is a vast subject with illimitable possibilities. It is psychosomatic, since it explores the intimate relationship between the body and the mind. It may appear quite simple and easy, but the moment one sits down to practise, one quickly realizes that it is a difficult art.
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Pranayama
Words can hypnotise and attract a reader toward religious practice (sadhana) and make him think that he understands a spiritual experience. Reading, however, only makes him more learned, while practice (sadhana) in what he read brings him nearer to truth and clarity. Fact is truth and clarity is purity.
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Pranayama
