Yoga Quotes - Page 10

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

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

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.