Rod Stryker Professions : Author Born : October 19, 1957 Browse All Authors Top 58 quotes by Rod Stryker Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga. Rod Stryker yoga knows order Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others. Rod Stryker frustrated compassion love We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us. Rod Stryker clarity wholeness needs There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student. Rod Stryker yoga meditation teacher Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil. Rod Stryker yoga practice mind In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential. Rod Stryker full-potential yoga body The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life. Rod Stryker yoga meditation practice If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold. Rod Stryker yoga silence meditation Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery. Rod Stryker yoga meditation joy Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about. Rod Stryker focus yoga practice Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive. Rod Stryker thrive soul needs If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul. Rod Stryker yoga spiritual mean For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear. Rod Stryker accompany-us people ideas Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it. Rod Stryker obstacles inspired desire It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire. Rod Stryker alive action desire The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny. Rod Stryker improving destiny masters When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims. Rod Stryker yoga exercise philosophy The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga. Rod Stryker yoga practice self When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not. Rod Stryker growth soul desire From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny. Rod Stryker destiny yoga powerful Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
