Thought for the month – Page 8 – Susannah Izzard Yoga

Thought for October

October 2, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us’ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought for September

September 1, 2017September 21, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘To become wise, you must learn to listen to the wild dogs barking in your cellar ‘ Irvin Yalom Staring at the Sun

Thought for August

July 31, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become’ Carl Jung

Thought for July

July 15, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves’ Carl Jung

Thought for June

May 30, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘Psychological work….can help people discover that it is possible to welcome their experience and hold it with understanding and compassion, whether or not they like it at any given moment’ John Welwood Toward a Psychology of Awakening

Thought for May

May 1, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘What shuts down the heart more than anything is not letting ourselves have our own experience, but instead judging it, criticising it, or trying make it different from what it is’

John Welwood Toward a Psychology of Awakening, 2000

Thought for April

April 1, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.’

Rainer Maria Rilke

Thought for March

March 1, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.’

Richard Rohr

Thought for the New Year

January 18, 2017September 23, 2017 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life without forcing them to happen and without rejecting the ones that don’t fit your idea of what “should” be happening.’

Jon Kabat-Zinn