Top 25 Real Yoga Quotes
#1. We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the globe. What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.
Prashant Iyengar
#2. When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#3. "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#4. If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.
Alan Finger
#5. If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
Frederick Lenz
#6. In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
Swami Vivekananda
#7. Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us.
Frederick Lenz
#8. In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.
Rodney Yee
#11. When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.
Frederick Lenz
#12. The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
Frederick Lenz
#13. Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist - who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?
Frederick Lenz
#14. In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately - this may be the most important of it all - less fear.
Rod Stryker
#15. The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?
Richard Rosen
#17. Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#18. The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.
David F. Swensen
#19. Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#20. We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
#22. Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.
Brandi L. Bates
#23. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.
Zoey Deutch
#24. Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.
Rod Stryker
#25. The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend - it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.
Rolf Gates
