Top 100 Quotes About Yoga And Meditation
#1. I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
Billy Childish
#2. 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
#3. I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Vijender Singh
#4. 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
#5. Fall in love with all knowing manifestations of one. You may find those connections between you and all through yoga and meditation.
Debasish Mridha
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
Rob Bell
#14. With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.
Donna Karan
#15. Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Dharma Mittra
#19. 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
#20. He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#21. 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
#23. Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.
Sri Chinmoy
#24. The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#29. Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Paramahamsa Nithyananda
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
Alan Watts
#37. I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
Dolph Lundgren
#38. The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.
Rod Stryker
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.
Amit Ray
#42. 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
#43. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#44. 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
#45. Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Leyla sat in the middle of the floor performing yoga or meditation. I couldn't remember if they were actually different things. I thought meditation was the one that didn't require special pants.
Maggie Stiefvater
#47. 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
#48. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
#49. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
Donna Karan
#50. Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
Nirmala Srivastava
#51. 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
#52. I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.
Miranda Kerr
#53. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
#54. 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
#55. There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
Rod Stryker
#56. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney
#57. Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Amit Ray
#58. Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#60. 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
#61. Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
Swami Satchidananda
#62. When we are aware about our body's sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.
Amit Ray
#63. The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#64. Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.
Jaggi Vasudev
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Meditation is defined by not just the mode of thinking, but also the object of thought
Chaitanya Charan Das
#69. Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.
Sri Chinmoy
#70. If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#71. Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
Bryan Kest
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
Allan Lokos
#75. Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#76. 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
#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. The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#79. 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
#80. You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.
Nirmala Srivastava
#81. I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.
Kristian Bush
#82. Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.
Rod Stryker
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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.
Nirmala Srivastava
#88. Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#90. In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
Ziggy Marley
#92. Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
Jaggi Vasudev
#93. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya
#94. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
Ray Dalio
#95. Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
Jaggi Vasudev
#96. Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.
Leza Lowitz
#97. No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.
Tiziana Stupia
#98. By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
Nirmala Srivastava
#99. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#100. 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
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