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“Even if you can be aware of your awareness for only a moment, in that moment you will touch the primal awareness/bliss at the core of yourself.”
― Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

“Meditative practice allows us to quiet the distracting thoughts and feelings so that we can perceive reality, and respond to it more skillfully. The ability to be present in each moment is nothing more and nothing less than the ability to accept the vulnerability, discomfort, and anxiety of everyday life. “With”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“When you are not present, you operate with conditioned knee-jerk responses, making unconscious, default choices. When you are fully present, you're able to see and sense things about the situation clearly, act accordingly, and be fully attuned to all its possibilities.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“...with great power indeed comes great responsibility. Conscious leaders exercise power with great care. Their integrity and intention are tested often; Shakti is theirs only as long as they have self-mastery over their ego and are in selfless service to the greater good.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Behind your greatest fear lies your greatest life. There is no avoiding of bypassing it. The only way out is through.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“When a person is congruent, they manifest great integrity; you see them living the truth of who they are, not pretending to be anything else. Congruent people are inspiring to be around; they are powerful beings whose energy comes together into a concentrated force of nature.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

“When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Leadership requires knowing how to journey within, knowing how to come into your own. You can't lead anyone or anything if you don't know what's leading you.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“...no one is your enemy and no one is your friend; all alike are teachers.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“Anyone who practices a scientific technique for divine realization is a yogi.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“The rejuvenating effects of sleep are due to man’s temporary unawareness of body and breathing. The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night he unconsciously performs the yogic rite of releasing himself from bodily identification, and of merging the life force with healing currents in the main brain region and in the six subdynamos of his spinal centres. Unknowingly, the sleeper is thus recharged by the cosmic energy that sustains all life.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Taking nothing for granted on emotional grounds or by faith, a yogi practices a thoroughly tested series of exercises that were first mapped out by the ancient rishis.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives

- sunflowers”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“learning to not envy
someone else's blessings
is what grace looks like”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Not living is not an option. Not evolving is not an option either. We must grow or die.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirirt.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Most conflicts we have with others can be traced back to a part of ourselves that we haven't fully owned.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The ancient rishi Patanjali6 defines yoga as “neutralisation of the alternating waves in consciousness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“You cannot change anyone else, but the minute you change yourself, everything around you starts changing.”
― Nilima Bhat, Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Judgment is the number one reason we feel blocked, sad, and alone. Our popular culture and media place enormous value on social status, looks, racial and religious separation, and material wealth. We are made to feel less than, separate, and not good enough, so we use judgment to insulate ourselves from the pain of feeling inadequate, insecure, or unworthy. It’s easier to make fun of, write off, or judge someone for a perceived weakness of theirs than it is to examine our own sense of lack.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein, Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living A Better Life

“You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi