Top 35 Rod Stryker Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul’s unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.”

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2. “It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.”

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3. “Do yoga in order to know what to do when you’re not doing yoga.”

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4. “We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.”

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5. “When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life’s ultimate aims.”

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6. “I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.”

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7. “From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.”

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8. “There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.”

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9. “Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.”

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10. “I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit’s flames.”

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11. “If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.”

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12. “In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.”

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13. “The yoga tradition provides one of humankind’s most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.”

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14. “It’s vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.”

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15. “Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life – and that’s exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.”

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16. “Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.”

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17. “Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life’s purpose and applying it fearlessly to life’s circumstances.”

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18. “The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.”

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19. “Learning to honor all four of your soul’s desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.”

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20. “I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator.”

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21. “Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.”

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22. “Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.”

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23. “Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life – and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world – is part of your soul’s blueprint.”

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24. “The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” – CHARLES DU BOS.”

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25. “Yoga’s most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.”

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26. “In fact, many people, including some who practice yoga, assume that yoga is nothing more than a form of exercise, or they believe that only the physical aspects of yoga have relevance to their lives. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

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27. “The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.”

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28. “Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.”

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29. “The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.”

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30. “Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.”

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31. “When it comes to desire, it’s not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth – those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive – from those that do not.”

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32. “Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.”

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33. “Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.”

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34. “In the same way that the physical practice of yoga so effectively benefits your body and mind, the larger science of yoga is similarly powerful in unlocking the vast potentials of your body, mind and spirit to help you achieve your best life imaginable.”

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35. “The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.”

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36. “Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weaknesses acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom,” said Paramahansa Yogananda.”

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37. “In our more lucid moments, when we have quieted the hubbub of our distractions, we are capable of sensing the power and intelligence that sustain us and everything else. In such moments, it is hard not to feel touched by the sublime, by that which links all the things in the world together, by the eternal essence that is at the heart of our existence.”

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38. “Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines – I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.”

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39. “I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.”

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