SUSAN NI RAHILLY draws on some inspiring quotes to live her life
Everyone is seeking balance in life, and as far as I know it as a teacher, balance comes with the steps to life-freedom, which is the philosophy of Yoga, together with practice, and values for your life. What is the lasting approach to finding balance? Here are some quotes to get that balance we all seem to be seeking:
Your Meditation is your medication…once it has worked for you, you throw away the medication; throw away the Meditation and get a new one — Osho.
If you can’t let it go, let it in — Dainin Katagiri.
You can’t get there from here, and besides there is no place to go — Sheldon Kopp.
Nothing is missing, says Zen Master Lin-Chi. The ordinary person probably does already live with zen values.
Appreciate happiness: happiness seems like such a small thing when you have it, but when it’s gone you realise how big it really is — Gorky.
I have only three things to teach: simplicity, patience and compassion — Lao Tzu, 7th Century Zen master.
May all beings know joy. (From the Four Noble Truths of Zen).
Anywhere you are is a sacred place — Joseph Campbell.
Learn to forgive yourself, again, and again, and again — Sheldon Kopp.
Religion is not realisation; not talk, nor doctrine, not theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes, into knowledge. That is religion — Swami Vivekananda.
Spend some time alone every day — Dalai Lama in his book, 18 Rules To Live By.
This is from Astrologer Rob Brezny: Cultivate mental and emotional states that ripen us to be ready for anything: form a strategy to avoid being enthralled with the hypnotic lure of painful emotions, past events, and worries about the future.
And a whole host of masters have this to say in somewhat similar words: Don’t forget to break the rules. This includes venerable masters such as the Dalai Lama, Sheldon Kopp, Zen, including me.
All teachers make a contribution to Yoga. My contribution is Gibberish — every day talk meaningless Gibberish for a few minutes to clear the mundane mind — Swami Vivekananda.
Balance is what happens when you know in your heart something is right. This is from me, suZen.
‘Be in awe of the mystery.’ This quote is from a man to whom harmony in the Universe was of prime importance, something Albert Einstein said with great beauty and lucidity:
‘The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself with the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms — this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of true religiousness and art.’
Finally, ‘All is Well’ — this simple phrase encapsulates the biggest wisdom of all.
Thirty years in her own practice and teaching meditation now for more than 25 years in Ireland, Susan Ni Rahilly’s Hatha Yoga teaching is inspired by Zen.
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Beautiful…
All is well.
Yes, perfectly the day dawns, sun sets and night creeps in to reinvigorate and recuperate us resting all the unrest of the day, which is but our making…in a mystic lull.
All is well indeed, but if we can wake up to a new understanding and present a new ourselves to ourselves and all!
Talking to self, helps to find what irks the mind and how it can be addressed successfully. Nice blog.