Best 1455 quotes in «yoga quotes» category

Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.

Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.

Enrichment only comes through purification.

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.

Eternity does nothing but give.

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.

Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.

Everyone is part of you.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.

Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry

Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga...it's about trusting that you will find your way.

Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

Fix your awareness gently on the center of your chest. Try to feel love.

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.