Colleen Saidman Quotes
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Most of us cling to what’s familiar, which can stifle the possibility of spiritual growth. Trying to make something permanent often creates frustration and sadness because it’s not possible. What we hold on to as fixed is in reality always changing—like trees through the seasons.
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Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.
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Running had always put me into a kind of trance. It was one of my first meditative experiences, and it let me escape from my self-berating, never-good-enough routine. Running produces endorphins that are calming; running lowers anxiety. I loved the feeling I had when I ran. It was shelter from the storm.
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Yoga sequences are designed to uncover our birthright: love, joy, and freedom. The body can experience these essences as space, ease, and liberation.
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The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.
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Final Relaxation. Keep the legs strapped and place a bolster or a rolled-up blanket under your knees. This shavasana lengthens the lower spine and releases the muscles of the lower back.
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Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “you owe Me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky. —“The Sun Never Says,” Hafiz (tr. Ladinsky) By 2001, Robin and I had been together for almost two decades and married for twelve years.
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Yoga peels away layer after layer of debris to uncover what has been there all along. It’s like the Bob Dylan lyric: “How long, babe, will you search for what’s not lost?
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Maya Angelou said: “You remember people not by what they do, but by how they make you feel.
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Escape from my self-berating, never-good-enough
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Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.
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Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.
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Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.
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I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children.
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. —Michael J. Fox
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Becoming rigid in a chaotic situation is like being caught in a riptide and struggling against it. If you fight, you’ll get exhausted and be swept away. Yoga is like a life raft that teaches us to observe and listen and allow ourselves to be carried by the tide until we find a place where we can safely break its hold.
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Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.
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You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.
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A tear is worth a thousand words.
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I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.
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As we face our own fears, we give others the courage to face theirs, too.
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I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.
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Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.
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The key is to accept what is and not allow yourself to be jerked between likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions. Accept what is, right now, whether it’s comfortable or painful.