Top 100 Quotes About Yoga
#1. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Frederick Lenz
#4. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#5. The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
T. K. V. Desikachar
#6. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
M.E. Dahkid
#7. The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you ... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
Annie Besant
#8. This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I have DM'd games where the players smoked pot, where they have cooked fondue, where they've performed yoga and where they've slipped out for ten minutes (without my knowing) to have quick sex in the bathroom during a game break.
Alexis D. Smolensk
#11. I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.
Charlotte Eriksson
#12. Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting
#13. I have a treadmill in my house, which is great because even if I jump on it for a little bit, it makes me feel better. I love yoga and Pilates too. I have a private Pilates instructor I go to once a week.
Holly Madison
#14. What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.
Robin Sacredfire
#15. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.
Kathryn Budig
#16. On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.
Frederick Lenz
#18. At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine
#19. After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'
Jimmy Fallon
#20. When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast.
Sri Chinmoy
#22. I'm dying to go to India ... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.
Christa B. Allen
#23. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.
Nirmala Srivastava
#25. We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#28. This realignment requires a knowledge of how our thought processes work and what we need to be able to meditate.
Sivanda Yoga Center
#29. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.
Frederick Lenz
#31. The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#32. As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#33. Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.
John Friend
#34. The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
Nirmala Srivastava
#35. You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? ... That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.
Donna Karan
#36. I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.
Kaley Cuoco
#37. One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
#38. An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours.
Kendell Foster Crossen
#39. I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image - this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.
Raquel Welch
#40. One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.
Bikram Choudhury
#41. As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are "Notice that" and "What happens next?" Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#42. I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.
Sebastian Roche
#43. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.
Amit Ray
#44. When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#47. Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.
T. K. V. Desikachar
#48. One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
#49. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.
Robin Wright
#52. Diamond Dallas saved my life. He didn't have to, but that's the kind of guy he is. He's helped so many people with his DDP Yoga. It's just incredible with the lives he's changing, the lives he's affecting. I am so honored to be part of that.
Jake Roberts
#53. 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
#54. I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room ... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!
Sigrid Agren
#55. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Cory Doctorow
#56. I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson.
Lara Stone
#57. You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#58. We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
Nirmala Srivastava
#59. Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Dharma Mittra
#60. The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Sahasrara is your awareness. When it is enlightened, you get into the technique of the Divine. Now there are two techniques - the technique of the Divine and the technique that you follow. You cannot act as Divine but you can use the Divine power and maneuver it.
Nirmala Srivastava
#62. Suggesting that you do yoga was my subtle way of telling you to go to hell.
Jennifer Echols
#63. According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is finished. People who breathe hurriedly and shallowly use up their allotment of breaths quickly, but if you breathe slowly and consciously,
Larry Payne
#64. Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life
Bikram Choudhury
#65. My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Mike Birbiglia
#66. Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
Frederick Lenz
#67. A yogi realizes the divinity in him and the divinity that is present in this world. In his own heartbeat and his own regular breath he feels the flow of all the seasons and the throbbing touch of universal life.
Fr. Joe Pereira
#68. Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.
Dharma Mittra
#70. Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#71. Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.
Bikram Choudhury
#72. This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
Frederick Lenz
#73. We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God:
Frederick Lenz
#75. If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.
Jaggi Vasudev
#76. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#77. Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#78. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
Alan Finger
#79. Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
Nirmala Srivastava
#81. Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.
Sophie Kinsella
#82. What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
Nirmala Srivastava
#83. I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.
Nico Tortorella
#84. Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.
Frederick Lenz
#85. You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
Nirmala Srivastava
#86. I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#87. 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
#88. The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
Nirmala Srivastava
#89. On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.
Lily Cole
#92. As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."
Frederick Lenz
#93. Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#94. Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.
Frederick Lenz
#95. The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.
Nirmala Srivastava
#96. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward - a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.
Samantha Ettus
#98. Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.
James Fox
#99. My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding. When I used to kill myself in the gym, it had an adverse effect on me because my body would be so stressed out and constantly in fight-or-flight mode.
Laura Prepon
#100. See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.
Dharma Mittra
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