"If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings."

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Source : Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.179, Ballantine Books

Sharon Gannon

#Letting Go Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Yoga Quotes

“I feel pretty confident in my own ability.”
“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”
“The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.35
“The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.”
“Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.”
“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”
“I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.”

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