Do Your Om Thing Quotes

“Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“What I have to say about meditation boils down to this: it never hurts. It always helps. It costs nothing, and it improves everything.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“All we can control is our own corner of the universe. Ourselves. The goal is to create peace in our little corner.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The French painter Henri Matisse once declared, “Grace is an inner atmosphere.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The image of the lotus flower, a beautiful blossom that grows out of the muddiest, murkiest waters is a prevalent one in yoga, as it symbolizes growth out of adversity. The flower doesn’t grow despite the muck. It grows because of it, just as spiritual transformations so often come from our darkest, muddiest moments. Gold”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The greatest miracle is that you are alive. And one breath can show you that. —THICH NHAT HANH”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Road rage, gossip, or glancing in the mirror and saying unthinkably cruel things to the reflection staring back at you are all subtly harmful behaviors that erode our sense of peace in daily life.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“A karmic yogi who truly lived his practice, Mahatma Gandhi, put it this way: “Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“You are a human being, meaning you are flawed, prone to illness and aging, and inclined to wake up some days and want to pull the covers over your head until this whole thing called life blows over.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“any yogi could meditate in a dark room lit with candles and incense. But could you meditate at the dentist?”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us, “Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Think of it this way: you cannot take a breath in the past nor can you take a breath in the future. Therefore, when you focus on a single exchange of inhaling and exhaling, you connect to the most important moment in your life, the one that is happening right now. The present moment. We have no influence over any other moment. Those behind us are memories. Those before us are guesses. Learn to focus on your breath, and you develop the power to simplify your life in a given moment and choose your conscious place in it.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“When something is your dharma (your sacred calling), you don’t choose it. It chooses you.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease. May”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“am enough. I have enough. I do enough. I”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. The”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“What unhealthy behavior or stuck energy do I want to change in myself? Before I engage in it, I will take five long, slow breaths (five-count inhale, five-count exhale). Repeat.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The purpose of meditation is not to stop thinking. That’s impossible. The purpose of meditation is to observe our thoughts and develop the strength to unhook from them, to see them for what they are: passing and impermanent.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Atheists, too, should not feel excluded by conversations about faith relative to yoga. A belief in the goodness of humanity and one’s highest Self are also life-affirming forces cultivated by the practice. If the word or concept of God doesn’t work for you, that’s absolutely OK. Through”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“What I eventually came to realize was my truth wasn’t their truth. My path wasn’t their path. I needed to create my own map. The truth of my calling would reveal itself. The”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Ahimsa, meaning non-harming or non-violence, reminds us not to act violently, speak carelessly or maliciously, or think harmful thoughts.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“There’s also the predicament that what I’ve described isn’t actually yoga; it’s bullshit.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“People generally feel better when they do yoga of any kind, in any capacity. It strengthens bodies and minds, and it’s like weight lifting for the spirit. Yogis”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Think about the last time you were lost. Not emotionally, but geographically. Maybe you were driving or walking in a foreign city or another part of your town, attempting to read a street sign, looking for the number of a building, or searching for a house. You needed to focus, so you turned down the music, got off the phone, and squinted your eyes a little to sharpen your sight. You honed your attention toward one, crucial task: becoming un-lost. This is dharana, or cultivating the skill of concentration.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“Honoring the first yoga priority is simple: be kind. Cause less harm. Create more compassion.”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life