These Quotes do not prescribe to any particular philosophy, so they are not here for you to either agree with or dislike.  These quotes do not reflect the Shala's teachings, but are ones that have inspired many students and teachers, so are here because someone found value in them.  If you like them then share them, if you don't, let them go and continue to explore The Shala's website.

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“All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

-Goethe

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You’re playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine.  We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

by Mariane Williamson

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“Yoga is not a practice; not something you do.  Yoga is your natural state.  There is nothing unnatural about the asanas because they simply demonstrate how your body is supposed to work.  If you were issued an owner’s manual at birth, it would be on Traditional Yoga.”

- Yogesvari Nath Devi