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 StrykerIt'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 StrykerThe point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when weโre done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether weโre fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when weโre done practicing yoga.
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