Sana Quotes

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

Approach each asana with freshness every day.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.