Top 100 Spiritual Yoga Quotes
#1. Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl Jung
#2. In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of consecrated action.
Eckhart Tolle
#3. The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
Jaggi Vasudev
#4. It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.
Jaggi Vasudev
#5. I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.
Grace Gealey
#6. Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#7. Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Shakti Gawain
#9. People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
Marianne Williamson
#10. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#11. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#12. 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
#13. Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#14. Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.
Jaggi Vasudev
#16. 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
#17. Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.
Jaggi Vasudev
#18. 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
#19. The physical concerns and misalignment we experience in the spinal vertebrae of our body are often directly correlated with the spiritual energetic ability to flow freely as well.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#20. 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
#21. You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#24. Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Sting
#25. 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
#26. Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo
#27. Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.
Evita Ochel
#28. The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#29. Whenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.
Jaggi Vasudev
#31. When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#32. Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.
Jaggi Vasudev
#33. My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
Faith Hunter
#34. To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.
Jaggi Vasudev
#35. Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#36. [The Creator] shines in the cosmic consciousness as a painting in the mind of an artist.
Swami Venkatesananda
#37. A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Christy Turlington
#38. Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
Jaggi Vasudev
#39. A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
Ramana Maharshi
#40. It is important to meet people where they are. It reminds me of yoga, to which people may flock for the physical benefits, often to find that the spiritual benefits match or even outweigh them.
Karen Dawn
#41. Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.
Jaggi Vasudev
#42. Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.
Rod Stryker
#43. Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.
Amit Ray
#44. Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.
Jaggi Vasudev
#45. The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
Terence McKenna
#46. A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#47. If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#48. There's something about yoga that makes it a spiritual experience, I'm realizing. It's opening me beyond myself. A good class seems like a dose of LSD--without the worry you'll find yourself jumping off a roof into a swimming pool.
Meryl Davids Landau
#50. When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.
Karan Bajaj
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.
Kripalvanandji
#54. Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#55. If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#56. Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.
Rachel Caine
#59. Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.
Dharma Mittra
#60. People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#61. 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
#62. The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#63. To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.
Jaggi Vasudev
#64. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Frederick Lenz
#65. When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.
Baba Hari Dass
#66. I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.
Andrew Mason
#67. Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.
Jaggi Vasudev
#68. The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.
Frederick Lenz
#69. I wouldn't go to yoga with you because I'm not bendy, not because I'm not spiritual.
Christopher Moore
#70. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
Jaggi Vasudev
#71. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#72. I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.
Karan Bajaj
#73. Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.
Donna Farhi
#74. Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.
Poonam Dhandhania
#76. Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
Jaggi Vasudev
#77. Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#78. The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Sting
#79. The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.
Jaggi Vasudev
#80. 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
#82. The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.
Sri Aurobindo
#83. The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."
Frederick Lenz
#84. Please always see the bright side of everything.
P.R. Sarkar
#85. The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#86. If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#87. The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.
Jaggi Vasudev
#88. If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
Jaggi Vasudev
#89. Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.
Jaggi Vasudev
#90. These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth.
Nirmala Srivastava
#91. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#92. Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. Iyengar
#93. Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class.
Jeffrey Brantley
#94. Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.
Jaggi Vasudev
#95. In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.
Jaggi Vasudev
#96. If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.
Jaggi Vasudev
#97. The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.
Jaggi Vasudev
#98. Kundalini Yoga will dawn on you the secret of how to be Healthy, Happy and Holy.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#99. Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
Jaggi Vasudev
#100. Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
Jaggi Vasudev
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