Schiffmann Quotes & Sayings

Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. — Erich Schiffmann

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming ... — H.P. Lovecraft

When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are. — Erich Schiffmann

Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births. — Joe Lieberman

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love. — Erich Schiffmann

Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need. — Erich Schiffmann

This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. — Frederick Reines

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves. — Erich Schiffmann

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet. — Tony Snow

People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the newly discovered fact an explanation of things that have no connexion with it whatsoever. — Marcel Proust

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. — Samuel Johnson

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that. — Erich Schiffmann

Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice of meditation-or inner listening-in the poses and meditations, as well as all day long. It's a matter of listening inwardly for guidance all the time, and then daring enough and trusting enough to do as you are prompted to do ... — Erich Schiffmann

Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force. — Erich Schiffmann

Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time. — Erich Schiffmann

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality. — Erich Schiffmann

What you're thinking about is what you are being. — Erich Schiffmann

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. — Theodore Roosevelt

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils — Dennis Prager

It's not that the church has a mission. It's that a mission has the church. — Rob Wegner

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it's like you weren't hurt. — Erich Schiffmann

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in - when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing. — Erich Schiffmann

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. — Erich Schiffmann

I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' is where I've started. — April Pearson

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription. — Jon Oringer

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road! — J.R.R. Tolkien