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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Hearts and flowers...
Darling Valentines,
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. It's surrounded by romance and contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the middle ages, and the oldest known Valentine card is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting card produced in the US were created in the 1840's by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of Valentine, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as 'scrap.' And the rest, is Hallmark history.
Today, as we are practicing yoga, I'd like to celebrate the heart within, not the romance outside of it.
And, being that it's Grammy weekend and Lady Yoga is attending the Grammy's, I'd like to add some delicious quotes from my favorite musicians as we travel through practice.
The heart chakra is called the Anahata. It's the fourth Chakra up from the root. It's seed or root sound is Yam like Yum. It means, unstruck.
A balanced heart chakra is in acceptance of the self and others, their and thine own personal values and ethics. Balance propels us toward our unique direction in life and so it is in accordance that we 'strike's such a balance in breathing, stretching and sounding out our bliss.
It's expansion provides freedom and growth.
The color it represents is green. It symbolizes harmony, creativity, health, abundance and nature, combining yellow for the soul and blue for the spirit. Kind of like a zip lock back of love to share with others.
A strong and open heart chakra offers new energy and revitalizes tired nerves. It extends the lungs, arms and upper back, so it is not uncommon to celebrate in practice with a myriad of backbends aka heart openers.
Whether you are reading this blog, taking my Hot class in the style of Bikram or my level one class at Liberation, everyone can feel a lil' somethin' somethin' so enjoy....
It's a think line between love and hate - The Pretenders
The hardest part of ending is starting again. - Linkin Park
Love is designed to build and destroy, then rebuild again.
Love is a ride from passion to hurt then back again. Where can I buy a ticket?
Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. - Henry Drummond
Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou
Where there is love there is life. Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.Pearl Bailey
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
very being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
Love conquers all. Virgil
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. e. e. cummings
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler
Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set - Lady Gaga
We're all just walking each other home. - Ram Das
Love rests on no foundation. Is is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. - Rumi
Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air. I know I can count on you. Sometimes I feel like saying, Lord, I just don't care. But you've got the love I need to seem me through.
You've got the love
Got the love
Got the love
You've got the love, got the love,
to see me through (Candi Stanton/Florence and The Machine)...
So, thanks and...right back atcha!
Lady
Friday, February 11, 2011
Nelson Mandela...
Darlings,
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
Nelson Mandela was born 18 July 1918 and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the leader of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa but was arrested in 1962, convicted of charges that sentenced him to life in prison. He served 27 years and was released on 11 February 1990,
He received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize fighting non-violently for freedom and equality.
While in jail, his reputation grew and he became widely known as the most significant black leader in South Africa.
In our practice today whether on the mat or on the blog, let's use Nelson Mandela's words as a vehicle for liberation from our own ties that bind us to whatever is holding us back. Each time we decide to become more present, more aware of where we are, right now, we are able to fully decide each moment we take from then on. In consciousness, not neglect or multi-tasking, can we truly live our our potential. It's so easy to get distracted from a myriad of things from our iPhone to American Idol to our kids, boss, spouse wanting our attention. Until we can fully be present for ourselves, can we be super-present for everything else.
In inspiration....
Do not to dwell on the deep wounds of the past but move forward.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
If there are dreams (about a beautiful South Africa), there are also roads that lead to that goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
It always seems impossible until its done.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. –Long Walk to Freedom
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.- Autobiography
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets. - speech, April 27, 1995
For each - the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.- speech, May 10, 1994
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Autobiography
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Long Walk to Freedom
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
bellowing the flame,
Lady
Monday, February 7, 2011
She loves you, yea, yea, yea!!
Darlings,
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
The Beatles arrived for the first time in America on February 7th, 1964. When The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show Sunday, February 9, 1964,at 8PM, it was and remains the most important event in the history of rock music.
In preparation for their appearance, the CBS Television office on West-Fifty-Third Street in New York, just down the street from the apartment yours truly inhabited 35 years later, was overwhelmed by more than 50,000 requests for tickets to a studio that held 703 people. During their appearance, the Beatles sang five songs in the following order: All My Loving, Till There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There, and I Want To Hold Your Hand. On this night, 73 million people watched The Beatles. Their appearance had such an impact that most normal activities in America came to a standstill watching their performance. Criminal activity in most of the major cities and towns in America was put on hold, and getting a taxi or bus in New York was almost impossible, until their performance was over. Mass hysteria resulted wherever the Beatles appeared, and Beatlemania was created.
Today, our collective intention is in celebration of love and excitement. It is February and Valentines is right around the corner. So go for it, in your practice and in your life.
And below is abundant in support of that, with love from the Beatles Love songs and John Lennon. Enjoy...
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans"-John Lennon
"Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow"-J.Lennon
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."-John Lennon
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear." – John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it." -John Lennon
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope."-John Lennon
Love is the answer and you know that for sure
All You Need is Love
You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like." JL
“Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will.”
“For I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.”
“Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. We can work it out.”
“Yesterday our troubles seemed so far away, I believe in yesterday.”
“Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.”
“Life goes on within you and without you”
“And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make.”
“But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun”
“To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.”
“But of all these friends and lovers There is no one compares with you. And these memories lose their meaning When I think of love as something new. Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life, I love you more.”
“The love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“the minute I didn't feel it, I stopped.”
“The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops--that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
and the beat goes on. The beat goes on.”
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. - The Beatles, Yesterday
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.
I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.
Love, love me do, you know I love you. I'll always be true, so please, love me do.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box, they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind possessing and caressing me. - The Beatles, Across The Universe
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe.
The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful, and so are you.
Tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun. - The Beatles, I'll Follow The Sun
When it rains or shines, it's just a state of mind. - The Beatles, Rain
For every mistake we must surely be learning
Have you heard the word is love. - The Beatles, The Word
When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be. - The Beatles, Let It Be
Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you. - The Beatles, Because
When you told me you didn't need me anymore, well you know I nearly broke down and cried. - The Beatles, Oh! Darling
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it's all right
It's getting better all the time
“To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.”
And in my riff off the Beatles, here's my swan song to end practice. See if you can guess where I got this from...
It's wonderful to be here
It's certainly a thrill
You're such a lovely audience
We'd like to take you home with us
We'd love to take you home
I don't really want to stop the show
But I thought you might like to know
That this teacher’s going to sing a song
Before she let’s you all hurry along
So let me introduce to you
The one and only resting pose
In honor of the Beatle’s Yoga's Sivasanaaaaaa!!!!!!
I ain't got nothin' but love babe, eight days a week,
Lady
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Xinnian Kuaile - Happy Chinese New Year -Year of the Rabbit!
Darlings,
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
Xinnian Kuaile
Pronounced, Chinyin kai luh or sing yen quay ler in pinyan or the English translation of Chinese characters means Happy Chinese New Year!!!
We are transitioning from the year of the tiger, a strong but volatile year, of course the year yours truly was born.
For the next 15 days we celebrate it's transition into a year that is much more placid in nature.
Contemplate the idea of a year of slow, delibrate, mercy, elegance, amiability, peacefulness and quiet.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.” – Buddha
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. – Buddha
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – Carl Jung
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” - Willa Sibert Cather quotes
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.” – William Shakespeare
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. Paramahansa Yogananda
“Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.” – Seneca
“As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor” - unknown
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Hip hop and fluffy tails,
Lady Yoga
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
Xinnian Kuaile
Pronounced, Chinyin kai luh or sing yen quay ler in pinyan or the English translation of Chinese characters means Happy Chinese New Year!!!
We are transitioning from the year of the tiger, a strong but volatile year, of course the year yours truly was born.
For the next 15 days we celebrate it's transition into a year that is much more placid in nature.
Contemplate the idea of a year of slow, delibrate, mercy, elegance, amiability, peacefulness and quiet.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.” – Buddha
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. – Buddha
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – Carl Jung
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” - Willa Sibert Cather quotes
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.” – William Shakespeare
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. Paramahansa Yogananda
“Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.” – Seneca
“As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor” - unknown
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Hip hop and fluffy tails,
Lady Yoga
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Groundhog Day 2/2/11
Darlings,
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
It's Groundhog day. If it's cloudy when a groundhog emerges from it's burrow, it will leave he burrow and winter will end soon. If it's sunny, the groundhog will see it's shadow and retreat to its burrow for six more weeks of winter.
In LA, we don't have to worry so much about light, we have it and the warmth that doesn't seem to reflect the east coast right now, being pummeled by storm after winter storm. They can celebrate a snow day or two and retreat indoors for contemplation. We, well, we can celebrate lightness always and use it as fuel as we go through our practice. Whether the postures or difficult and challenging or a cake walk, we can always find the darkness and light, heaviness and lightness and in turn, the unity of balancing both of those energies.
So, let's explore the lightness as we practice or read this blog and bring it into our daily worlds of challenge.
"The joy after a period of darkness and struggle is greater than the peace of one who only basks in the light." JJ Dewey
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
Moonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or
foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
Live in rooms full of light. ~Cornelius Celsus
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ~Arlo Guthrie
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways- by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. ~Author Unknown
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ~Astrid Alauda
Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right,
On grounds of agony, and to forsakeNot only bliss, but all that's blessed by light. ~Nicholas Gordon
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson
Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright. ~J.L.W. Brooks
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~Matthew Arnold
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. ~Benjamin Franklin
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ~Douglas Adams
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.~Sarah Williams
The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
Live in rooms full of light - Cornelius Celsus
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami
Vivekananda
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabinidrath Tagore
There are dark shadows on the earth, but it's lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle - Walt Whitman
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller
Yours in lightness and helping guide you from the dark,
Lady Yoga
In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...
It's Groundhog day. If it's cloudy when a groundhog emerges from it's burrow, it will leave he burrow and winter will end soon. If it's sunny, the groundhog will see it's shadow and retreat to its burrow for six more weeks of winter.
In LA, we don't have to worry so much about light, we have it and the warmth that doesn't seem to reflect the east coast right now, being pummeled by storm after winter storm. They can celebrate a snow day or two and retreat indoors for contemplation. We, well, we can celebrate lightness always and use it as fuel as we go through our practice. Whether the postures or difficult and challenging or a cake walk, we can always find the darkness and light, heaviness and lightness and in turn, the unity of balancing both of those energies.
So, let's explore the lightness as we practice or read this blog and bring it into our daily worlds of challenge.
"The joy after a period of darkness and struggle is greater than the peace of one who only basks in the light." JJ Dewey
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
Moonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or
foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
Live in rooms full of light. ~Cornelius Celsus
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ~Arlo Guthrie
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways- by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. ~Author Unknown
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ~Astrid Alauda
Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right,
On grounds of agony, and to forsakeNot only bliss, but all that's blessed by light. ~Nicholas Gordon
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson
Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright. ~J.L.W. Brooks
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~Matthew Arnold
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. ~Benjamin Franklin
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ~Douglas Adams
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.~Sarah Williams
The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
Live in rooms full of light - Cornelius Celsus
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami
Vivekananda
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabinidrath Tagore
There are dark shadows on the earth, but it's lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle - Walt Whitman
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller
Yours in lightness and helping guide you from the dark,
Lady Yoga
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