Yoga means union; it brings about balance; and can help you to live a more fulfilling life.
20 quotes about yoga
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar
“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
— Anonymous
“Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted — in body, mind, and heart — and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow — or we begin to flow more in our lives.”
— Cybele Tomlinson
“My workout is my meditation.”
— Kyle MacLachlan
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”
— Sharon Gannon
“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 Wood Besant
“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.”
— Hatha Yoga Pradipika
“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar
“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar
“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.”
— Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
“Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.”
— Patricia Walden
“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”
— Jason Crandell
“Corpse pose restores life. Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.”
— The Quote Garden
“Tree pose grows confidence.”
— The Quote Garden
“You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.”
— Osho
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“A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you’re aware in anything you do – and it doesn’t have to be yoga – it changes you. Being present changes you.”
— Mariel Hemingway
“Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the World around us.”
— Christy Turlington
“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.”
— Sting
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