Quotes about yoga
yoga two fundamentals
More than anything, it's [yoga] really led to a solid belief in two fundamental things: that we have everything we will ever need, and more, within us, and we are all one. Not only has it given me great lessons in abundance and the infiniteness of our gifts, but it has led to a more conscious enjoyment of my work and my life. Reggie Lee
yoga practice bliss
Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. Swami Vivekananda
yoga training use
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. Samantha Stosur
yoga soul mind
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. Rumi
yoga effort drug
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal. Tom Robbins
yoga hard-work without-love
Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work. Steve Ross
yoga self voice
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally. Thomas Merton
yoga reality phones
Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so. Shawn Johnson
yoga said source
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into. Ramana Maharshi
yoga self doubt
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.
yoga self awareness
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
yoga men self
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
yoga self mind
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
yoga mind inquiry
The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
yoga realization disappear
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
yoga reality mind
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.
yoga ideas realization
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
yoga realization delusion
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
yoga mind stills
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
yoga roots mind
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.
yoga ego doubters
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.
yoga rocks mind
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
yoga meditation mind
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
yoga practice vegetarianism
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.
yoga meditation mind
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
yoga mind consciousness
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
yoga meditation mind
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.
yoga perfection detachment
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. Radhanath Swami
yoga water discipline
When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.
yoga work-out boring
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
yoga secret brain
Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences
yoga helping-others giving
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
yoga practice faces
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. Sri Aurobindo