Inspiring Words

The only reason we choose to do yoga is for the pleasure,
the literal pleasure of our systems relaxing and filling with energy.
It is not some struggle to enjoy a future result.

Mark Whitwell

Without heart, everything else counts for nought.
Unless the heart expands, nothing else will avail.

Swami Akhandananda

The greater the level of calmness of our mind,
the greater our peace of mind,
the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

The Dalai Lama

When the breath wanders, the mind is unsteady,
but when the breath is still, so is the mind still.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The key to practice is the exquisite link of breath to the whole body.
We learn to be 'with' the breath, therefore 'with' life.

Mark Whitwell

Serve. Love. Give. Purify. Meditate. Realise.

Sri Swami Sivananda

To action alone are you entitled, never to it's fruit.
Let not the fruit of action be your motive.
Neither let there be any attachment to any inaction.

Abiding in Yoga, do your work without attachment
And with being balanced in success or failure.
Balance is called Yoga.

Bhagavad Gita

The principal source of happiness is inner peace.
Someone who has already had practice in developing this peace,
who already has a certain experience of it,
will not be easily troubled by ordinary enemies.
However, hatred, malice, and spite will immediately destroy this
mental calmness.
The true enemy, therefore, is malice.

The Dalai Lama