According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.
Rod StrykerThe more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.
Rod StrykerDesire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
Rod StrykerMy hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.
Rod StrykerIndeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however, I was already searching for light - for my source. Yet despite my preternatural kinship with that spark that lights this and all worlds, for the first two or three decades of my life, I resisted it.
Rod Stryker