Top 60 Tara Stiles Quotes

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

I think yoga should be for everyone, not just the folks who change their name to something Hindu.

The more we work to remove our fears and insecurities, the more aware we become of the interworkings of the universe and tap into the laws of nature, which, to most, will appear like we’re doing some magic trickery.

When we focus mostly on our immediate needs, wants, and desires, we may achieve some of them but hardly feel satisfied. When we feel connected to ourselves on a deeper level, we get happy. We feel safe.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

Wal-Mart is like a physical version of YouTube. You can find anything you want on YouTube. It let me access millions of people online who maybe wouldn’t have tried yoga. Wal-Mart carries a similar heavy weight in its ability to reach people.

Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can’t force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

Yoga practice is therapeutic for the body and mind, reminds us of our goodness, energizes our creativity, and inspires.

What fun is life if it’s taken so seriously, and what fun is yoga and the search for enlightenment if we are tight, tense, and clenched up from the inside out?

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

Fears, insecurities, and the need to please can rule our lives. Our society is economically and socially set up for us to live under these pressures in order to maintain its control and survival.

For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.

When you practice yoga regularly, you get more then you will from jogging on the treadmill catching up on the last season of ‘Lost.’ When you practice yoga, you use your body and your mind, and you’re gaining awareness and intuition.

A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are more equipped to deal with everything life throws our way.

Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga is about uniting inward, which takes place in the present, not the past, in each and every moment.

There are people who intensely clutch an idea that yoga is a higher system, not to be lowered to the weight loss or even fitness category. This is the same kind of clutching that has kept yoga part of a tightly knit club for so long since its introduction in America.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It’s available to us all. It’s all in what we choose to practice.

One of my favorite teachers is Osho, mainly because he liked to push people’s buttons just to get them to think and live outside of their comfort zone.

Yoga puts us back in touch with our bodies’ needs and equips us with the tools we already have: the intuition and awareness to nourish our bodies properly with wholesome, healthy foods. Yoga doesn’t show us how to starve ourselves. That is a terrible disorder, as terrible as overeating.

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

Paying attention to what we allow ourselves to pay attention to is a tricky thing. It’s like being in two places at once but completely worth the discipline. We can react mindlessly or respond mindfully. It’s up to us.

We all have the power, intuition, and ability to think and act for ourselves until we give that power away. We give our power away because we’re bullied into thinking we aren’t good enough and someone else must know better than us; therefore, we should give over our instincts and act according to instruction.

A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.

Green things are good for your body.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that’s when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It’s independent of our desires, doesn’t respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

Yoga, the physical part, brings health in your body; meditation works on the mind, realizing your self. And they both can be practiced at the same time.

I’ve never had a problem with Jesus. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s just the kind of guy you’d always want to have around. But I have had a big problem with his agents, publicists, and managers. They’ve abused his message for power and converted moldable, excited people into bullied believers and followers.

I’m a pushover for cleaning items that come in packages of three or more.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

When we find comfort in knowing that all the love and support we need is housed inside us, we can honestly share that joy with others without needing anything in return.

I’ve learned that if you don’t have anyone opposing your work, if you don’t have anyone thinking, ‘Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,’ your work simply isn’t reaching enough people to be relevant.

Read labels in your favorite products. Look for short lists of simple, less-processed ingredients with names you recognize as food. If you find some of the same ingredients in your cereal as your shampoo, maybe it’s time to switch to something simpler.

We get so caught up in doing everything for ourselves, including inspiring ourselves, that it’s exhausting and not at all useful. Take a look around you. Look at your friends. Open up to your friends and take in the caring and good intentions they hold toward you.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

Meditation can be intimidating. Sitting there doing nothing, just breathing, can be trickier than it sounds. It may feel strange, uncomfortable, or even put you to sleep.

If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.

We only get one body – might as well take good care of it.

I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There’s a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.

Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.

Time moves along at its own pace for as long as we are on this planet, and then some. So why try to beat it anymore? Maybe it’s better to meet time head on and chill ourselves out so we can exist in harmony with the passing days.

Yoga, in its authentic form, is a system of health for the body, mind, and spirit. Neglecting an element transforms the practice into something that is not, in fact, yoga.

Unfiltered venting to a friend about difficult situations can be helpful. But it can work against you if your life turns into complaining.

Yoga and mediation exist whether we choose to acknowledge or practice. It’s like a tree. You can walk by the tree and inhale the oxygen it provides consciously or unconsciously. You’ll still be benefiting from the tree.

Even if you’re a seasoned professional multi-tasker, your body, mind, emotional life, and growth potential can get a blow from over-committing. Take a look at what’s on your plate if you’re swamped, and you can surely find some space for yourself even when you feel trapped.

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.

This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We’ll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.

Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.

We have to be nice to ourselves and others in order for life to run smoothly. This is just how it goes: a fun little game of the universe we like to sometimes call karma.