Top 100 Quotes About Meditation And Yoga
#1. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
David Duchovny
#2. I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
Gillian Anderson
#4. The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.
Kandyse McClure
#5. The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
Ramana Maharshi
#6. No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.
Tiziana Stupia
#7. Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.
Frederick Lenz
#8. We are only actors and yet we identify so intensely with the part we are playing, that we forget our true Self. Through yoga meditation, Self- inquiry, and living in accord with natural law do we wake up from the dream, or at least realize we are the dreamer.
Richard Fish
#9. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#10. I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
John Astin
#11. I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
Elizabeth Lesser
#12. Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Ramana Maharshi
#13. The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.
Zoe McLellan
#14. The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful.
Ilyas Kassam
#15. When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.
Jaggi Vasudev
#16. The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.
Joseph Campbell
#17. I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
Olivia Newton-John
#18. Once a week, I spend a day luxuriating in bed. I like staying in my house, pottering around, and maybe cooking or just laying around reading. I love doing yoga and transcendental meditation.
Heather Graham
#19. Samadhi. Immersed in concentration and meditation, all thoughts and distractions far away. Your focus steady, you achieve samadhi. All that exists is the heart of the experience. There is no one meditating, no one concentrating, only awareness. There is no yogi, only the yoga. (3)
Alberto Villoldo
#20. The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work.
Vishwas Chavan
#21. Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.
Dharma Mittra
#22. Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.
Narendra Modi
#23. Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.
Charlotte Eriksson
#24. I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.
Amanda Beard
#25. Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.
Christy Turlington
#26. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#27. My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.
India.Arie
#28. Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.
Satish Kumar
#29. To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.
Jaggi Vasudev
#30. Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#31. For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.
Dwayne Johnson
#32. Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.
Colleen Saidman
#33. You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
Rob Bell
#34. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#35. Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.
Arianna Huffington
#36. One need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.
Nirmala Srivastava
#37. Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.
Jaggi Vasudev
#38. Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.
Deepak Chopra
#39. Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
Amit Ray
#40. This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith ...
Nirmala Srivastava
#41. A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me - but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
Charlotte Eriksson
#42. Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.
Rajashree Choudhury
#43. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#44. Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!
Jennifer Aniston
#45. I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
Cara Delevingne
#46. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
Elvis Presley
#47. Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#48. In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.
Donna Farhi
#49. The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
Amit Ray
#50. The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#51. I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
Mariel Hemingway
#52. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#53. I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.
Jessica McNamee
#54. I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.
Miranda Kerr
#55. Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.
Donna Farhi
#56. Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
Nirmala Srivastava
#57. No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
Jack Kornfield
#58. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.
Anonymous
#59. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#60. For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
Mariel Hemingway
#61. I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
Billy Childish
#62. Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#63. Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.
Amit Ray
#64. We need spend out time in feeling the moment rather then creating the moment. Let it flow as it and just feel everything. Brain is employee of mind.
Yogi
#65. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
#66. I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
Dolph Lundgren
#67. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
Alan Watts
#68. Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#69. Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.
Kathryn Budig
#70. As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars.
Anne Cushman
#71. When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.
MC Yogi
#72. 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.
Patanjali
#73. Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.
Nirmala Srivastava
#74. Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.
Sri Chinmoy
#75. Retaining our capacity for reason
is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
H.E. Davey
#76. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.
H.E. Davey
#77. The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.
Amit Ray
#78. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
Ray Dalio
#79. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya
#80. Fall in love with all knowing manifestations of one. You may find those connections between you and all through yoga and meditation.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
Ziggy Marley
#82. My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.
MC Yogi
#83. He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things
James Connor
#84. I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.
Jason Mraz
#85. I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.
Miranda Kerr
#86. Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
Jason Mraz
#87. My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.
Paul Harvey
#88. I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Vijender Singh
#89. Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Wayne Dyer
#90. I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
John McLaughlin
#91. Because all actions and expressions
stem from the mind, it is vital to know the
mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what
about psychosomatic wellness?
H.E. Davey
#92. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.
H.E. Davey
#93. We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.
Frederick Lenz
#95. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#96. Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
Swami Satchidananda
#97. Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!
Aleister Crowley
#98. Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Amit Ray
#99. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney
#100. Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.
Jaggi Vasudev
