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Rod Stryker (born Nimrod Gross; October 19, 1957) is an American Yoga teacher. He is the founder of ParaYoga and the author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom. He has studied and taught yoga, tantra, and meditation for over thirty years.[citation needed]

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What does "living your best life" mean to you? Does it mean accumulating wealth and fulfilling all your material wants? Or, does it mean turning away from the material world in order to fully realize the gift of spirit? We often tend to think of these objectives as being mutually exclusive: material fulfillment or spiritual fulfillment, not both together.

Life, Mean, Spiritual, Think, Thinking, Turning

Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.

Life, Mean, Part, Yoga

Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

Impassioned, Needs, Prepared, Soul, Thrive

Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity, and meaning. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Full Potential, Meaning, Purpose, Sense, Spiritual, Yoga

If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man

Fully, Giving Up, Lying, Men, Things, Violence

I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.

Desire, Mystery, Possibility, Same, See, Unveil

Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

Yoga, Acceptance, Numbers, Tip, Number, Associate

My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.

Faith, People, Prayer, Self

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Know, Knows, Order, Yoga

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

Love, Compassion, Frustrated, Natural

When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.

Desire, Discern, Growth, Soul, Thrive

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

Body, Full, Full Potential, Realizing, Yoga

Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.

Happiness, Honor, Lasting Happiness, Soul, Thrive

In fact, many people, including some who practice yoga, assume that yoga is nothing more than a form of exercise, or they believe that only the physical aspects of yoga have relevance to their lives. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Believe, Exercise, Nothing, Relevance, Yoga

Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.

Clear, Exactly, Focus, Necessity, Practice, Yoga

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

Clarity, Needs, Recognize, Wholeness

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Joy, Meditation, Messiness, See, Yoga

Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

Exist, Realization, Recognizes, Spiritual, Sublime, Yoga

Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let go" of their past hardship and pain by embracing, what I call, a Miracle Angle - a way of seeing their circumstances that allowed them to transform their circumstances into a spark for positive change.

Adversity, Change, Hardship, Letting Go, Pain, Yoga

The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.

Become, Destiny, Improving, Master, Masters

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