WEEK 13.2 (MARCH 29TH-APRIL 4TH) DISSOLVING ILLUSIONS WITH OUR INNER LIGHT OF AWARENESS
“Our greatest struggles are our greatest teachers. Always remember that we only have control over ourselves, and our choices. There is a lesson in ever experience and an experience in every lesson.” – David Scott
“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to the inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to the inner love; it will transform you.” – Sri Chinmoy
Yoga is a lot like life. It is a balance between holding on and letting go.
“In your practice focus on only what you can control.” David Scott
“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose” – Eckhart Tolle
Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that ignorance has built.
If I can change my thoughts, I can change anything. Today I will make progress towards my goals. …
Never underestimate yourself. You are capable of great things. …
“Holding onto worries about tomorrow is like trying to carry two heavy backpacks at once—it’s exhausting and unnecessary. It’s like worrying makes us live in tomorrow before it’s even here, and that just takes away today’s energy without changing anything about tomorrow. So, let’s not worry about opening our umbrella until it actually starts to rain.” David Scott
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will stop focusing on how stressed I am and remember how blessed I am. Complaining won’t change my reality, but a positive attitude will.”
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really are. Why do we give so much power to others in our thoughts, worried about what they think of us, when there do not know or really care about who we are or what we have been through to get to where we are today.” – David Scott
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I will get back up. Again, and again. The faster I recover from setbacks, the faster I’ll get back on the path of life.”
“Often we have to spend time fumbling around in the darkness, bumping into things, before we appreciate the light once it returns.” David Scott
“When I find that I don’t have time for what matters, I will stop doing things that don’t.”
“There’s nothing selfish about self-care and self-love. I can’t give what I don’t have. When I enrich my own life, I’ll be life-giving to others too.”
“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
“There is no such thing as the light at the end of the tunnel; realize that you are the light. Be the light that helps others see. Let light shine from within darkness.” – David Scott
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.” Wayne Dyer
“When the grass looks greener on the other side, it’s just life’s way of reminding me to water the grass I’m standing on.”
Before you utter anything, run your thoughts through three key filters and don’t speak unless you get three resounding YES responses: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it helpful?
“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.”
“Happiness doesn’t mean you always have a smile on your face. It means you have a foundation for your existence that allows you to be at peace no matter what is happening in your life.” – Wai Lana
The hardest prison to escape from is our mind.
Change is never painful. Resistance to change is painful.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but instead in trying to control it.
You can’t have a physical transformation until you have had a spiritual transformation.
Do not choose the one that is beautiful to the world, but rather choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
The mind is like water. When it is turbulent it is difficult to see, when it is calm it becomes still.
What comes easy won’t last long and what last long won’t come easy.
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.” – Dalai Lama
“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)”
“Your diet is not only what you eat. It’s what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, the people you hang around… be mindful of the things you put into your body emotionally, spiritually, and physically.” David Scott