Thursday, January 20, 2011

Words of wisdom from the wise

"There is nowhere to go. You are already there."
                      Indian proverb

"Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness."
                 The Buddha (c. 563-c.483 BC)

"Sit in reverie and watch
The changing colour of the the waves that break
Upon the idle seashore of the mind."
Henry Wads Worth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for your soul to reside in."
BKS Iyengar (b. 1918)

"May the outward and inward man be at one."
Socrates (469-399 BC)

"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not to be endured
and endure what cannot be cured."
BKS Iyengar

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
African proverb

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
Lao Tzu (c. 604-531 BC)

"Who looks outside, dreams
who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Jung (1875-1961)

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