Yoga & Meditation
with Joni
with Joni
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- Peace to all
- Health to all
- Happiness to all
Inspirations
"Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you
do with what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
"Life is like a stroll on the beach, as near to the edge
as you care to go."
- Thoreau
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller
"What lies before us and what lies behind us is
nothing compared to what lies within us."
- Emerson
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- The Dalai Lama
"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a
giant tree, in the midst of them all."
- Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared."
- Buddha
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of
their minds, can change the outer aspects of their
lives."
- William James
"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you
would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in
every small contracting and expanding, the two as
beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings."
- Rumi
"First of all the twinkling stars vibrated,
but remained motionless in space,
then all the celestial globes were united into one
series of movements.
… Firmament and planets both disappeared,
but the mighty breath which gives life to all things
and in which all is bound up remained."
- Vincent Van Gogh
“When you’re experiencing peace, it’s coming from
within you, you’re ‘doing’ peace. And this is true of
anything else you might be looking for. Love,
happiness, contentment, well-being come from
within. Nothing external needs to change for you to
have what you want…..If you want to be happier – be
happier. If you want to be more relaxed – relax. If
you want more friends – be friendly. Sounds simple.
It is.”
- Cheri Huber
“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest
source of my misery is not wanting things to be the
way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am.
Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not
wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m
suffering, I find this ‘war with reality’ to be at the
heart of the problem.”
- Stephen Cope
“These days, my practice is teaching me to embrace
imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways
things haven’t turned out as I planned, in my body
and in my life – for the ways things keep falling apart,
and failing, and breaking down. It’s less about fixing
things, and more about learning to be present for
exactly what is.”
- Anne Cushman
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is
incomplete.”
- Jack Kornfield
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear,
but around in awareness.”
- James Thurber
"“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion
or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you
plant there?”
- Jack Kornfield
"No mirror ever became iron again,
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the
worse.
Become the light.”
~ Mevlana Rumi, 13th century sufi poet and mystic
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."
~ Rumi
"Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you
do with what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
"Life is like a stroll on the beach, as near to the edge
as you care to go."
- Thoreau
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller
"What lies before us and what lies behind us is
nothing compared to what lies within us."
- Emerson
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- The Dalai Lama
"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a
giant tree, in the midst of them all."
- Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared."
- Buddha
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of
their minds, can change the outer aspects of their
lives."
- William James
"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you
would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in
every small contracting and expanding, the two as
beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings."
- Rumi
"First of all the twinkling stars vibrated,
but remained motionless in space,
then all the celestial globes were united into one
series of movements.
… Firmament and planets both disappeared,
but the mighty breath which gives life to all things
and in which all is bound up remained."
- Vincent Van Gogh
“When you’re experiencing peace, it’s coming from
within you, you’re ‘doing’ peace. And this is true of
anything else you might be looking for. Love,
happiness, contentment, well-being come from
within. Nothing external needs to change for you to
have what you want…..If you want to be happier – be
happier. If you want to be more relaxed – relax. If
you want more friends – be friendly. Sounds simple.
It is.”
- Cheri Huber
“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest
source of my misery is not wanting things to be the
way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am.
Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not
wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m
suffering, I find this ‘war with reality’ to be at the
heart of the problem.”
- Stephen Cope
“These days, my practice is teaching me to embrace
imperfection: to have compassion for all the ways
things haven’t turned out as I planned, in my body
and in my life – for the ways things keep falling apart,
and failing, and breaking down. It’s less about fixing
things, and more about learning to be present for
exactly what is.”
- Anne Cushman
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is
incomplete.”
- Jack Kornfield
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear,
but around in awareness.”
- James Thurber
"“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion
or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you
plant there?”
- Jack Kornfield
"No mirror ever became iron again,
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the
worse.
Become the light.”
~ Mevlana Rumi, 13th century sufi poet and mystic
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."
~ Rumi
