Yoga Quotes - Page 31

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you.

Try this now. If you can't do it, you can do Headstand instead. If you don't want to do that, go home!

I love you all. I am you and you are me!

With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.

When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

There is a time to be still in the pose.

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga...it's about trusting that you will find your way.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap is part of my process that is shaping me as I become all I'm becoming. I'm sure this understanding will be a big help to us in our yoga practice and also as a teacher. More than anything though, it will affect the way we look at everything in our life, which affects how we respond to things.

I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.