Yoga Quotes
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.
I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.
Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.
The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.
Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.
If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.
Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.
I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.
The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.
