Author: ~Yogaville

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 8

“I don’t think anything can extinguish this fire of grief raging within meeven if I were to become the prosperous and unrivaled ruler of the earth and…

Bhagavad Gita Study: Book 1, Chapter 2, Verse 20

Unlike the physical body, the Self is not born.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Book 1, Chapter 2, Verse 41

We often don’t accomplish what we want because we have so many thoughts and desires—some of them mutually exclusive—that the strength of the mind gets exhausted.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 16

Life itself is a long dream. We are unable to realize the illusoriness of the external objects because the dream is still on.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 40

Learn to enjoy what you are doing and stick to the meditation schedule. That will be enough.”

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 38

If we start to feel anxious about gain or loss, victory or defeat, etc., we know that the ego is not ready to let go, trust life, or let us leave the outcome to a higher will.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2 Verse 16

When it is said: “The world is unreal,” it is not suggested that we are seeing the world where nothing exists.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 14

This running after things we want and away from things we don’t want is in itself stressful and agitating for the mind.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 28

We are afraid of death; not because of the unknown,but rather some part of our psyche remembers the experience, shortly after leaving the body, of having to review the life we just lived.

Giving the Gift of Our Attention: Active Listening & Presence

What is needed most is for the person to be allowed to express their fears and feelings and to have those fears and feelings received by another—simply received.