Yoga Quotes

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there's only light.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball - you can figure out things for your hurt feelings.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.

One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.