Judith Hanson Lasater Quotes

#1. Compassion is the litmus test.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#2. I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#3. Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#4. Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

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#5. You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

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#6. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

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#7. Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

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#8. I believe that perception does not shape your life; it is your life.

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#9. Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

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#10. Beliefs are rigid thoughts. Beliefs are thoughts that get repeated enough to take on a kind of internal structure. No belief is the truth; it is only a belief.

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#11. Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

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#12. I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

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#13. Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

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#14. When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. [ ... ] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

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#15. I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

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#16. What you want to get as a teacher is not an email or a Facebook post that says, 'I learned so much about headstands in your class'. What you want to get is 'I learned so much about myself and my life in your class'.

Judith Hanson Lasater