Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
~ Paramhansa Yogananda~
My prayer is for consistency.
Consistency in prayer, love, positive thought word and deed. Consistency in folding laundry and putting it away, in writing letters to loved ones, in visiting my grandmother, in energy levels and good parenting. Consistency in providing nutrient dense meals for my family, in chanting, smiling, giving and mood. Consistency in equilibrium - being happy no matter what.
Lady hear my prayer.
How I hope to will do it. Be consistent in my sadhana...by Swami Sivananda
"Yoga is a process of continuous transformation. The inner perfection of self-realization can only come to be revealed by experience. This happens only progressively. The transformation of one's personality is achieved through stages. As you advance in yoga, the ego is progressively replaced by the spirit. It is through this that the will of God works. By the practice of yoga, the sadhaka (seeker) is freed from the tyranny of the lower mind, and he becomes divine. At a later stage the transformation takes the shape of a progressive unfoldment of the spirit. A preceptor or guru is indispensable for the practice of yoga. The aspirant should be humble, simple, gentle, refined, tolerant, merciful, and kind. You will not have success in yoga if you have desire to get psychic powers. Yoga does not consist of sitting cross-legged for six hours, nor in stopping the heart-beat, nor in getting buried in the ground for a week or a month."
Consistency in patience, tolerance and understanding.
