Top 100 Yoga Mind Quotes
#1. Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
Ramana Maharshi
#2. What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.
Frederick Lenz
#3. The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#4. Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.
Woody Harrelson
#5. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#6. Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
Geeta Iyengar
#7. 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
#8. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal ... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#9. Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.
Dharma Mittra
#10. Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
Patanjali
#11. Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.
Banani Ray
#12. We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.
Narendra Modi
#13. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.
Osho
#14. There is no difference in our souls ... That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves
our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#15. Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.
Alan Finger
#16. I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.
Joyce DiDonato
#17. Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Ramana Maharshi
#18. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.
Gudjon Bergmann
#19. Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#20. Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.
LeBron James
#21. Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance.
Rodney Yee
#22. All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.
Aleister Crowley
#23. Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#25. Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
Patanjali
#26. Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.
H.E. Davey
#27. I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
Bat For Lashes
#28. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
Ramana Maharshi
#29. When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
Ramana Maharshi
#30. With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
Jaggi Vasudev
#31. 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
#32. Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Amit Ray
#33. The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
Sharon Gannon
#34. Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.
Sebastian Pole
#35. If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#36. You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down.
Nirmala Srivastava
#37. Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.
Madonna Ciccone
#38. Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
Damon Galgut
#39. When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.
Dharma Mittra
#40. My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.
Donna Karan
#41. When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
Ramana Maharshi
#42. Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#43. If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
Frederick Lenz
#44. 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
#45. In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.
Bikram Choudhury
#46. Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I'm playing the waiting game after an audition.
Allen Evangelista
#47. The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.
Rodney Yee
#48. I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
James Fox
#49. 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
#51. The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)
Ravi Ravindra
#53. When mind controls man, it's ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it's ... Yoga
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#55. I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.
Richard C. Armitage
#56. Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#57. Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. Iyengar
#58. To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation.
Nirmala Srivastava
#59. Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
Patanjali
#60. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
Donna Karan
#61. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#62. After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#63. Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#64. You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.
Sivananda
#65. The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Paramahamsa Nithyananda
#66. The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Sri Chinmoy
#67. To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.
Aleister Crowley
#68. Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.
Rodney Yee
#69. When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
Ramana Maharshi
#70. The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.
Cyndi Lee
#71. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga - Samadhi.
Swami Vivekananda
#77. 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
#78. Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#79. There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.
Koren Zailckas
#81. Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.
Leza Lowitz
#82. I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
Kristian Bush
#83. A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.
Sebastian Pole
#84. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya
#85. Yoga, in all its forms, provides a means for the practitioner to master the body and the mind so that the soul (or true self) can emerge to share in the experience of life.
Lei Camille
#86. Consider your will and your body as two dancers, moving in total unison. Too many beginning and even experienced yoga students make their yoga into a wrestling match - the mind contending with the body, forcing it into postures that the body is resisting. Yoga is a dance, not a wrestling match.
Bernie Clark
#87. In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.
Sri Aurobindo
#88. If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.
Jaggi Vasudev
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.
Amit Ray
#93. Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#94. Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#95. One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.
John Novak
#96. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#97. Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#98. To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#100. Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.
Chris Rock
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