Favorite quotes

“Feeling bad is a choice." 
- The Power of Intention (Wayne W. Dyer, 2004)

“There are no ordinary moments." 
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman, 1980)

“Stop thinking and end your problems." 
- Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu, 1989)

"Faith is a choice that is available to us all, at any moment, and it supports us under pressure far more effectively than our own inner debating committee. Today, see what happens when you keep it simple: let go of the questions, set aside the fears, and remember that things will work out. Now breathe, smile, and put one foot in front of the other."
"We can either be in the flow or be in our heads" 
"I am in the posture when I look into my wife's eyes, and I am in the posture when I look into my waiter's eyes. Both are holy interactions. The illusion is that there is separation, levels of importance, beginnings and endings. Yoga brings us to the understanding that the posture never ends."
- Meditations from the mat (R. Gates, 2002)

"A true spiritual path does not tell people what to believe in; rather it shows them how to think; or, in the case of Zen - what not to think."
- zen-buddhism.net

"People are like puzzles; the more you find out about them, the more the pieces fit together." 
- Sophia Rinas

"Yesterday's pain is the warrior of light's strength."
"A warrior of light practises a powerful exercise for inner growth: he pays attention to the things he does automatically, such as breathing, blinking, or noticing the things around him. 
He does this when he feels confused, and in this way he frees himself from tensions and allows his intuition to work more freely, without interference from his fears and desires. Certain problems that appeared to be insoluble are resolved, certain sorrows from which he thought he would never recover vanish naturally. 
He uses this technique whenever he is faced with a difficult situation."
- Manual of the Warrior of Light (P. Coelho, 1997)

"Love is a choice, it is not something what come to you by itself. It is up to you to decide, every day, if you love or not. And to act accordingly." 
- Jacob Rinas (paraphrased)

"If you have a philosophy of life, decision making  is relatively straightforward: When choosing between the options  life offers, you simply choose the one most likely to help you  attain the goals set forth by your philosophy of life. In the absence  of a philosophy of life, though, even relatively simple choices  can degenerate into meaning-of-life crises. It is, after all, hard to  know what to choose when you aren’t really sure what you want."
"Two principal sources of human unhappiness—our insatiability and our tendency to worry  about things beyond our control."
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (William B. Irvine, 2008)

"Going to sleep is a little like dying, a journey taken alone into the unknown."
"If there is expectation, only frustration will follow."
- The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep (T. W. Rinpoche, 1998)

(Bre talking about functional, day to day life movements) "...picking something up off the ground without injuring yourself or picking up your kids or picking up your wife when you are having sex... The functionality can go all the way until your last day on earth... That is not usually the same case with other sports and movement activities. Yoga is different. "
- Bre

"Because you are only as good as you continue to push."
- Chris Heria

"Last year a foolish monk. This year no change."
- Ryokan Taigu (18th century)

"The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. Yet surely this moment, now, is the most important for us. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present." 
- The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation (William Hart, 2009)

"As you open your focus and sense information instead of matter, your brain waves slow down from beta to alpha. This make sense because when you are sensing and feeling, you are not thinking." 
- Becoming Supernatural (Joe Dispenza, 2017)

"Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad. Bad is good; good is bad. They are two sides of one coin. So enlightenment should be in practice. That is the right understanding of practice, and the right understanding of our life. So to find pleasure in suffering is the only way to accept the truth of transiency. Without realizing how to accept this truth you cannot live in this world. Even though you try to escape from it, your effort will be in vain. If you think there is some other way to accept the eternal truth that everything changes, that is your delusion. This is the basic teaching of how to live in this world. Whatever you may feel about it, you have to accept it. You have to make this kind of effort." 
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shunryu Suzuki, 1973)