“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”, Aristotle

I just went and stood on a bridge this evening,

standing still with eyes closed.

I allowed my empty mind to remain still as I absorbed the sounds of,

the river trickling beneath me and the raindrops on my hat.

Allowing myself to become absorbed into nature

by surrendering myself to the moment.

The effect was to bring a smile and joy to me lasting sometime.

What a lovely moment,

when you realise yoga prepares you for those moments,

you can never stop practicing,

and never cease to wonder at the delights

within, that the outer world can help you find.

Copyright © 2008 Russell Smithers

I thought it would be nice to trawl the internet for some yoga links that visitors may find interesting.

1. Yoga Inventive Marketing
2. Yoga in Schools
3. What Kind of Yogi Are You
4. Yoga in India
5. Yoga Girl
6. KungFu vs Yoga
7. Mellow Yoga
8. Stunning Indian Yoga
9. Yoga Elements
10. Yoga YouTube Video

“To advance, you must come to see yourself as a Master. You must conduct yourself as a Master. There is no one who can teach you mastery, nor is there anyone who can give you mastership, for they are already yours. Practice is required. You must live as a Master lives, think as a Master thinks, act like a Master acts before you would know a Master if you were to meet one.”Found in the MySpace blog post Practical Techniques for Alignment, the quote itself is from “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East” by Baird Spalding in Book 4, on page 159:

“By becoming attached to names and forms, not realising that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error rises and the way to emancipation is blocked.”, Buddha

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”, Dalai Lama

“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Chuang Tzu, in the third century B.C., put it in an amusing way; having dreamed that he was a butterfly flitting from flower to flower, he stated that he was now wondering whether he was then a man dreaming he was a butterfly or whether he was now a butterfly dreaming he was a man.”, Wei Wu Wei “Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon”…