Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Albert Einstein

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Alex Ebert

I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating with the universe and getting the inspiration for different kinds of breath. Basically, I'm into the movement of breath and the shapes of breath. The different kinds of sequences of breath. I like doing that a lot.

Alec Baldwin

When I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don't need to work and I'm married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Jamie Martin

Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body

Carnie Wilson

I started doing yoga.

Eckhart Tolle

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Eckhart Tolle

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Eckhart Tolle

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Annie Besant

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

Annie Besant

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

Annie Besant

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

Annie Besant

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Danny Pudi

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

Dan Brown

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

Andrew Weil

Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.

Andrew Weil

Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Christy Turlington

Yoga is not a religion to me.

Christy Turlington

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Christy Turlington

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

Christy Turlington

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.

Christy Turlington

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

Christy Turlington

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Christy Turlington

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

Christy Turlington

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

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

Alice Walker

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

Amanda Beard

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.

Donna Karan

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

Donna Karan

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

Donna Karan

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

Donna Karan

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.