“I understood that the attachment to myself and my image ... was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body, just feel the… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.” — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“There is a certain kind of action that leads to freedom and fulfillment,” Krishna begins. “A certain kind of action that is always aligned… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“I understood that the attachment to myself and my image ... was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“The feminine comes to us in nature. Go outside. Look at the amazing waves of green, of lilacs, of blue mountains. We are in… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of "union" - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Quoting from Phillip Moffitt Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? The most profound change I’m aware of just now is a growing… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Around his celestial home Indra had flung a vast net—a web stretching out infinitely in all directions. Each vertex, or node, of this net… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“How important was mantra to Gandhi’s transformation? Extremely. When done systematically, mantra has a powerful effect on the brain. It gathers and focuses the… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.” — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
