Yoga Quotes - Page 20

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Our intention creates our reality.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch.

Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.

The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.