Thank you, restlessness, as challenging a traveling companion as there could be. In the end, my embrace of you was what sent me on the only search that really counts. Responding to you was the stirring that led me to sit every morning and to venture into that invisible terrain where seeker and sought merge and rest together, once and for all eternity.
Rod StrykerIt is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.
Rod StrykerYour soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.
Rod StrykerYoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.
Rod StrykerThere is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
Rod StrykerEveryone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let go" of their past hardship and pain by embracing, what I call, a Miracle Angle - a way of seeing their circumstances that allowed them to transform their circumstances into a spark for positive change.
Rod Stryker