Yoga Quotes - Page 2

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow