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May 2010 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ...
Melissa Rosenquist
All Things Change
a Puddle
...so calm
transforms into Vapor
...so mysterious
which becomes a Cloud
...so swollen
then forms Raindrops
...so invigorating
that sprinkle down to water Seeds
...so promising
which grow into Fruit
...so wholesome
to feed the Child
...so innocent
who grows into Man
...so zealous
who Smiles
...so sweetly
who Frowns
...so sadly
who Laughs
...so heartily
and Cries
...so sorrowfully
All Things Change
Strive On...
Courageously
Unknown
You are ruled by everything until you understand the power in doing nothing.
Lowell E. Wrigh
by the curious arithmetic of love, the more we share, the more we possess; the more we willingly give, the more we multiply.
April 2010 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
Mary Oliver
To live in this world,
you must be able to do three things:
To love what is mortal;
To hold it against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
And when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Marianne Williamson
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
March 2010 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
Unknown
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...
Unknown
The dark moment the caterpillar calls the end, is the sun-filled moment the butterfly calls the beginning.
Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art
and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
February 2010 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
Lee Siber
It’s okay to lust for the future and treasure the past but remember, being in the moment is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.
John Lubbock
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The basic fact is that humanity survives through kindness, love and compassion. That human beings can develop these qualities is their real
blessing. - -
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
January 2010 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
Baba Ram Dass
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Sir John Eccles
Altruism is one of the glories of our human culture, and it must be learned just as we learn a language.
Pema Chodron
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.
December 2009 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
BEING HOME by Danna Faulds
Where can I soften
in this posture?
Where is the edge
between opening
and force, the line
between stretch and
too much effort?
The mind and body
serve up a feast of
feelings, each breath
another chance to
deepen and release.
The smallest motion,
or even just a quiet
sigh could be all that
I require to shift my
focus from the outer
to the inner realm,
a change from feeling
lost to being home.
Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a change
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Then it is only kindness that makes sense,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
November 2009 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
May we live like the lotus, at home in the muddy water.
Unknown
Choose Life
only that and always,
and at whatever risk.
To let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold
giving it and spreading it is to choose nothing.
Sister Helen Kelly
The Four Great Qualities of the Heart Mind
The mind becomes clear and serene when the qualities of the heart are cultivated:
friendliness toward the joyful,
compassion toward the suffering,
happiness toward the pure,
and impartiality toward the impure.
Peacefulness towards all beings
I am blessed with peace.
I am peace, Itself.
Joyfulness towards all beings
I am blessed with joy.
I am joy, Itself.
Kindness towards all beings
I am blessed with loving-kindness.
I am loving-kindness, Itself.
Compassion towards all beings
I am blessed with Compassion.
I am compassion, Itself, in action.
Yoga Sutra of Pantjali 1:33
Translated by Alistair Shearer
October 2009 Class Readings from Artha Yoga Studios
From "Structural Yoga Therapy" by Mukunda Stiles
The Power of Intention
Whatever you look for you'll find
If there is a will, there is a way.
If there is no will, there is no way.
If you lack the will for change
there is no one who can show you the way.
Unknown
Drink you 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.
From the Rig Veda as described by Anne Adams
There is an endless net of threads throughout
the universe..…..………..
At every crossing of the threads there is
an individual.
And every individual is a crystal bead.
And every crystal bead reflects
not only the light from every
other crystal in the net
but also every other reflection
throughout the entire universe.
Sandra Anderson
All the disciplines of yoga
are intended for one purpose
to awaken in you a renewed
sense of balance and harmony
that will gradually reintroduce
you to yourself.
September 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
St. Theresa's Prayer
May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.
August 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
Metta of Lovingkindness
May you be filled with lovingkindness
May you be well
May you be peaceful and serene
May you be happyand safe
May you be prosperous
Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest gift
we can offer anyone
is our true presence.
Kabir
Don't go outside your house to see the flowers.
My friend, don't bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it,
before gardens and after gardens.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha called suffering a Holy Truth,
because suffering has the capacity
of showing us the path to liberation.
Embrace your suffering, and let it
reveal to you the way to peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
With compassion in our heart, every thought,
word and deed cn bring about a miracle.
Lao_Tzu, Tao-te-ching
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
til the right action arises by itself?
July 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
Thich Nhat Hanh
Be yourself.
Life is precious as it is.
All the elements for
Yoru happiness
Are already here.
There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle.
Just be.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Be yourself.
Life is precious as it is.
All the elements for
Your happiness are
Already here.
There is no need to
Run, strive, search,
Or struggle. Just be.
June 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.
Unknown
A Good Talk
When we two talk long
Measuring and sifting
The confusing ingredients
That make daily bread
Sometime
Your recipe and mine
Read the same
And reassured
The next loaves smell yeastier
And taste just fine
Poems of the Ordinary Life
By Patatricia Reckrey
What lies behind us and what leis before us are tin matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Everything people say or do is ultimately rooted in the belief that those actions will lead them to happiness.
Taro Gold
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
May 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
Nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease…. With care freeness, harmony, and love.And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
Unknown
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Listen Listen to the sound of the bell
May it bring me back to my true self
May the hearer awaken from forgetfulness
And transcend all anxiety and sorrow
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace
It does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble
or hard work. It means to be in
the midst of those things and still
be calm in your heart.
Unknown
April 2009 class readings Artha Yoga Studios
"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
"By Thich Nhat Hanh
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
… And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth…
By Kahiil Giran – The Prophet
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on you knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tel me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the worlds go on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting, over an over, announcing your place in the family of things.
By Mary Oliver – The Wild Geese
'May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.'
Unknown
March 2009 Readings from Artha Yoga Classes
By Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Call Me by My True Names
Butterflies over the Golden Mustard Fields
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I am back. Someone is singing
My hand touches the old gate,
and I ask, "What can I do to help?"
The wind replies,
"Smile. Life is a miracle.
Be a flower.
Happiness is not built of bricks and stones."
Springs of Oriental Wisdom
Wisdom from the Mongolian Steppe
Not forever
can one enjoy
Stillness and peace.
But misfortune and
Destruction
Are not final.
When the grass
Has been burnt
By the fire of the steppe,
It will grow anew
In summer.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As you will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
by Deepak Chopra
Every action generates a force of energy
that returns to us in like kind...
what we sow is what we reap.
And when we choose actions that bring
happiness and success to others,
the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.
February 2009 Readings from Artha Yoga Classes
Power of Now 2006 calendar
By Eckhart Tolle
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant.
Let your awareness rest upon it.
How still they are,
how deeply rooted in being.
Allow nature to teach you stillness.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Edge Left Unhemmed
by Patricia Reckrey
Only Thyme
I hear it so often
there just isn’t time
if only I had more time
if I picked a peck of it
brought it to the back door
in the dark of night
what would they do with it
in the shine of morning?
THE PRACTICE OF BEING PRESENT by Danna Faulds
Attend the breath.
Let the rhythm slow and settle.
Filling and emptying, draw the outside in, and then release.
Simplicity and ease.
Nothing to do but breathe, relax and feel the free movement of air and life force,
watch the play of energy and sensation, allow everything to be,
without the need to change or fix or make it different.
This moment, you can listen to your soul.
This breath, you can have no goal but being.
You are already complete.
This, just this, is what it means to be whole.
January 2009 Readings from Artha Yoga Classes
Power of Now 2006 calendar
Eckhart Tolle
Feel the energy of your inner body.
Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases.
Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen,
Your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates your body.
Power of Now 2006 calendar
Eckhart Tolle
Love is a state of being. Your love is not
Outside: it is deep within you.
You can never lose it, and it cannot
Leave you. It is not dependent on some
Other body, some external form.
Power of Now 2006 calendar
Eckhart Tolle
When listening to another person,
don’t just listen with our mind,
listen with your whole body.
Feel the energy field of your inner body as
you listen. That takes attention away from
thinking and creates a still space that enables you
to truly listen without the mind interfering.
You are giving the other person space-space to be.
It is the most precious gift you can give.
One Liners by Ram Dass
You and I are the force for
transformation in the world.
We are the consciousness that
will define the nature of the reality
we are moving into.
Henry David Thoreau
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
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