Yoga Quotes (421 Quotes)

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  “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”

  Patañjali

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  “Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”

  Amit Ray

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  “PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”

  Susan Pease Banitt

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  “The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”

  Amit Ray

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  “There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”

  Amit Ray

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  “When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.”

  Donna Quesada

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  “I like the posture, but not the yoga.
  I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.”

  Roman Payne

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• “You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
  When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
  This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
  Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.
  All people are born with different constitutions.
  Never compare with others.
  Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.
  Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

  B.K.S. Iyengar

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  “We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.”

  Patañjali

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  “Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”

  Amit Ray

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  “Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile.
  (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)”

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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  “When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.”

  Donna Quesada

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  “Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.”

  Amit Ray

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  “The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)”

  Sri S. Satchidananda

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• “A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what’s required to manifest unwavering positive thought patterns. First, reflect on the actual, present condition of your mind. In other words, is the mind positive or not? We’ve all met individuals who perceive themselves as positive people but don’t appear as such. Since the mind is both invisible and intangible, it’s therefore easier to see the accurate characteristics of the mind through a person’s words, deeds, and posture.
  
  For example, if we say, “It’s absolutely freezing today! I’ll probably catch a cold before the end of the day!” then our words expose a negative attitude. But if we say, “The temperature is very cold” (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the origins of negativity. In doing so, we also have an opportunity to arrive at a state of positiveness, so that our words and deeds are also positive, making others feel comfortable, cheerful, and inspired.”

  H.E. Davey

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  “Self-care is how you take your power back.”

  Lalah Delia

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  “A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”

  Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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  “The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck.”

  Ellen DeGeneres

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