Yoga Quotes - Page 29

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws.

Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.

Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down.

Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Now the truth is that the Spirit is within you and you are the Spirit. You are the beauty, the bliss and the joy of that Spirit. That's what you are . Because your attention is not there, that's why you cannot feel your Spirit. But your Spirit exists; it is within you, in your heart, waiting for a moment to come into your conscious mind, to be felt by you in your central nervous system. It's all there, built within you.

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

I have been practising yoga for over a decade now, and it is a very important part of my life. It doesn't matter where I am or what I am doing, yoga gives me the opportunity to switch off and focus entirely on my body and my breath. Yoga allows me to meditate and reflect on what's important in my life. It is also great for core strength and maintaining agility.

All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.

There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.