Jois Quotes

#1. I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades.
-Sookie

Charlaine Harris

#2. I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

Denis Thatcher

#3. Life was small but good. (15)

Francesca Lia Block

#4. Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#5. It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#6. It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#7. Do your practice and all is coming.

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

#8. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal ... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#9. I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#11. So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#12. Yoga is your mind control capacity.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#13. Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#14. Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#15. Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#16. With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.

Ildefonsus

#17. I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...

Yukio Mishima

#18. The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#19. At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

Romesh Gunesekera

#20. Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.

K. Pattabhi Jois