Bryan Kest Quotes

#1. When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

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#2. Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

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#3. Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

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#4. Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance to our ecosystem, which also includes our atmosphere. Have you ever considered that we, you and I, are also apart of that?

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#5. Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

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#6. Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

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#7. We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected.

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#8. Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

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#9. Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.

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#10. Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

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#11. Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.

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#12. It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.

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#13. We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

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#14. One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

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#15. We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

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#16. I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

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#17. Jesus said "love," "forgive," have "compassion" and "don't judge." Buddha said "observe," "be silent," and "serve."

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#18. Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

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#19. If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.

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#20. Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.

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#21. Fall with awareness and acceptance.

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#22. As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.

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#23. Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

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#24. Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

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#25. Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.

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#26. Welcome to your body.

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#27. Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

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#28. If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.

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#29. Be gentle with everything in your life.

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#30. Learn to take pleasure in the search.

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#31. There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am.

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#32. It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

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#33. Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?

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#34. Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).

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#35. The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

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#36. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

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