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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, 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 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 this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 there should be holy war against yoga classes.

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 my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.

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.

It is important to learn that love is your life, love is spirituality.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That's the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.