Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

We must be engineers of souls.

We are what our thoughts have made us

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life.

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.