Yoga Quotes - Page 12

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind.The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.

Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.