Om Yoga Quotes

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!

Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

Yoga is a dance within…and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that’s when you dance on the outside.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Meditation results in marvels.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.