Best 1455 quotes in «yoga quotes» category

You will boost your productivity with active exercise.

Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up to elderly people doing it.

A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

Actually everyting is right, even the errors.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'

After realization, the attention becomes enlightened.

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal.. . . The shortest and easiest pathway of all is the pathway of Love. It is the one pathway that is open to all, irrespective of what their personal conditions or circumstances may be. For every person, everywhere, true attainment awaits through the yoga of Love, for yoga means union and it is our union with God that makes the attainment possible.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.

All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization.

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

A lot of people's lives are built around a healthy lifestyle. I take really good care with what I eat, and exercise obviously has become part of your lifestyle, going to the gym, meeting with your trainer, going to yoga and all those things. As an actor, that's part of your job; it's part of our responsibility to take care of ourselves, in a way.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

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

And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.

Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful.

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises over aerobics. I like working with a trainer at a private gym, but I also like going with friends because you don't get bored or distracted.

As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit.

Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?

As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation.

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

As you feel more and more love, begin to smile, let go, be free.