Yoga Quotes

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

You have to get serious about your practice!

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

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.

Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

Environment is stronger than will.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

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

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

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.

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

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

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

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

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

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.

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

There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Yogis love to be alone.

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.

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

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