Rebecca Pacheco > Quotes

“What I have to say about meditation boils down to this: it never hurts. It always helps. It costs nothing, and it improves everything.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“All we can control is our own corner of the universe. Ourselves. The goal is to create peace in our little corner.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The French painter Henri Matisse once declared, “Grace is an inner atmosphere.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The greatest miracle is that you are alive. And one breath can show you that. —THICH NHAT HANH”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The image of the lotus flower, a beautiful blossom that grows out of the muddiest, murkiest waters is a prevalent one in yoga, as it symbolizes growth out of adversity. The flower doesn’t grow despite the muck. It grows because of it, just as spiritual transformations so often come from our darkest, muddiest moments. Gold”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Road rage, gossip, or glancing in the mirror and saying unthinkably cruel things to the reflection staring back at you are all subtly harmful behaviors that erode our sense of peace in daily life.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“A karmic yogi who truly lived his practice, Mahatma Gandhi, put it this way: “Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“You are a human being, meaning you are flawed, prone to illness and aging, and inclined to wake up some days and want to pull the covers over your head until this whole thing called life blows over.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“That’s all panic is, really . . . Getting ahead of yourself.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Honoring the first yoga priority is simple: be kind. Cause less harm. Create more compassion.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“We spend so much time holding it all together in our lives that there is a palpable sense of relief when we pause to meditate, realizing there is nothing to grasp or clench or cling to for now.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Think of it this way: you cannot take a breath in the past nor can you take a breath in the future. Therefore, when you focus on a single exchange of inhaling and exhaling, you connect to the most important moment in your life, the one that is happening right now. The present moment. We have no influence over any other moment. Those behind us are memories. Those before us are guesses. Learn to focus on your breath, and you develop the power to simplify your life in a given moment and choose your conscious place in it.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease. May”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“What I eventually came to realize was my truth wasn’t their truth. My path wasn’t their path. I needed to create my own map. The truth of my calling would reveal itself. The”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Become still and take a few deep breaths. If you’d like, bring your hand to your heart center. Feel your breath rise and fall in your chest. Perhaps notice your heartbeat, the temperature of your skin, and any sensations in your body. Pay particular attention to the area of your heart. Imagine going into your heart as if it were a room or natural environment to which you feel profoundly connected. Maybe you imagine the space of your heart as more of a feeling. Now, go into your heart, and pick a dream. Begin to visualize your dream in detail. Where are you? Who is nearby? What are you wearing? Are you dressed formally or casually? What sounds do you hear? Is it a natural environment with few people or a room filled with friends and family? Continue to focus on your breath as you welcome these images in your mind. If you get stuck on an element of your visualization, don’t worry. You don’t need to force anything or overly control what you see. Notice what moves you and where your attention wants to go. Now, pause. I want you to imagine that your dream just happened. It just came true. How does it feel? Note the sensations in your body. Feel the expression on your face. Practicing this feeling is powerful because every dream that was ever accomplished, whether modest and individual or collective and historic, began here, first, as a thought.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“mindfulness gives us the choice of what to feed, befriend, and bring into action.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“The key to a mindful life is waking up to the possibility of the moment.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“weren’t for my mind, my meditation would be excellent. —PEMA CHODRON”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Breathwork is a great way to make regular deposits into your mindfulness bank, building up stores that will provide for you in the future. You can withdraw from it as needed.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Alternate nostril breathing, or nadi shodhana, creates an exquisite feeling of clarity and balance and is said to stimulate both sides of the brain: the left side, characterized by order and logic, and the right, governed by big picture thinking, creativity, and intuition.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“any yogi could meditate in a dark room lit with candles and incense. But could you meditate at the dentist?”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Everything we feel, someone else has felt—might be feeling at that very same moment. This point is essential. It’s the essence of how mindfulness proves transformative in our lives and relationships. It connects us on a profound level to our humanness, what it means to go through life’s vicissitudes, and how to be present for other people and to reality itself.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. The”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Knowing how to be a good friend is largely intuitive. Listen. Love. Make good-natured fun. Support. Forgive. Can you do this for yourself? I’m not asking about all the time. For a few minutes today, what if you tried?”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Above all, when we stop aiming for the cessation of thought, the mind becomes a quieter place to be.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us, “Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The mind is a well-meaning, overzealous puppy without a chew toy.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living

“Think about the last time you were lost. Not emotionally, but geographically. Maybe you were driving or walking in a foreign city or another part of your town, attempting to read a street sign, looking for the number of a building, or searching for a house. You needed to focus, so you turned down the music, got off the phone, and squinted your eyes a little to sharpen your sight. You honed your attention toward one, crucial task: becoming un-lost. This is dharana, or cultivating the skill of concentration.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“What unhealthy behavior or stuck energy do I want to change in myself? Before I engage in it, I will take five long, slow breaths (five-count inhale, five-count exhale). Repeat.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life