Rod Stryker Quotes

#1. My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.

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#2. No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

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#3. Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.

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#4. For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.

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#5. The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.

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#6. The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

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#7. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

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#8. Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

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#9. There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

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#10. I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.

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#11. When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.

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#12. Our self-acknowledgement, our dedication has to be bigger than our fear.

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#13. Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul's unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.

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#14. Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

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#15. Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

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#16. From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

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#17. Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

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#18. Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

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#19. Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.

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#20. Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

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#21. Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

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#22. I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

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#23. I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator.

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#24. In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately - this may be the most important of it all - less fear.

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#25. If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

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#26. I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames.

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#27. The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

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#28. It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

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#29. Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.

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#30. Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

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#31. We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

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#32. Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

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#33. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

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#34. Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.

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#35. Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.

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#36. That part of us that is meant to lead us in life, from which we are meant to lead, and from which we are meant to have guidance. The very thing that compels us to breathe, compels us to find hope in the midst of darkness - that part of us gets buried and overshadowed by fear.

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#37. Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.

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