Brenda Strong Quotes

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Yoga in America is a joke.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.