Rod Stryker Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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.

  Rod Stryker

  Love, Compassion, Frustrated

  "'Tantra Unveiled – An Interview with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait'". Interview with Rod Stryker, www.parayoga.com. September 25, 2000.

• If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Rod Stryker (2011). “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom”, p.14, Delacorte Press

• Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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

  Rod Stryker

  Desire, Obstacles, Inspired

  "Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can’t Have Both? (Part II)" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2011.

• 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.

  Rod Stryker

  Desire, Mystery, Possibility

• 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.

  Rod Stryker

  Lasting Happiness, Soul, Honor

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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

  Rod Stryker

  Pain, Frustration, Desire

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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

  Rod Stryker

  Pain, Attachment, Suffering

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

• 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.

  Rod Stryker

  Desire, Alive, Action

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

• 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.

  Rod Stryker

  Soul, Growth, Desire

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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