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In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

In the big picture we are all eternal.

In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.

In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out.

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.

In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.

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.

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

I think during the day, when I was doing the Masterchef experience, everything I'd learnt in yoga, the breathing techniques, etc, would really help and it would calm me down because it was so stressful.

I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that...It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You don't have to believe in anything, even yoga itself, to find joy and solace in the conscious joining of breath and movement, or relief in slowing the whirling of the mind. You just have to do it.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.

It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.