Here are a few self-compassion supporting quotes and mantras that were mindfully planted through-out the classes this week. Thank-you to yoga student Lesley Arnould for sharing the first mantra prayer.
"May I be grateful for what I have, May I bravely acknowledge what I need, May I wisely know that the path to enlightenment requires both" Canadian Living Magazine, Oct 2017 "My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart." - Swami Kripalu "Be still beloved heart, and know that you are safely held" - Amy Weintraub "To give ourselves compassion, we first have to recognize that we are suffering. We can't heal what we can't feel." - Dr. Kirstin Neff, self-compassion researcher
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You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.
- Eckhart Tolle - Stillness Amidst The World "You can't force a rosebud to open by beating it with a hammer."
- Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. (author of Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal") " When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless". We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each stage, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is." - W. Timothy Gallwey (author of The Inner Game book series) This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival. A joy, depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honourably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. - Jellaludin Rumi |