Yoga Quotes - Page 14

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.