Yoga Quote #1

“Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul created the symphony of life.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train that child.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any group or any individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.”

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.”

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Yoga means true self-knowledge.“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“The whole purpose of Hatha yoga is to purify and control our senses. It is the ultimate science of helping us discover what lies behind the apparent reality of body and mind.“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Why fear?“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“When the breath control is correct, mind control is possible.“

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“Do your practice and all is coming.”

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

“No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own’s efforts.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Yoga is a process of replacing old patterns with new and more appropriate patterns.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“In order to discipline the mind, we need to develop a mental practice that clearly reveals the distinction between the nature of spirit and matter.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“How we feel during the action is the quality of the action.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Master your breath, let the Self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Breath is indispensable for life, and its absence is death. Hence the necessity to make it longer and accumulate the Prāṇa Śakti. Just as a rich man accumulates money slowly to get wealthy, so also one should practice every day through the proper use of the breath in Āsana to maintain good health.”

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to yoga.“

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

“People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to meditate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.“

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

Swami Sivananda

“Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.”

Swami Sivananda

“Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.“

Swami Sivananda

“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”

Swami Sivananda

“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.“

Swami Sivananda

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.“

Swami Sivananda

“Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.“

Swami Sivananda

“An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.“

Swami Sivananda

“Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.“

Swami Sivananda

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don’t see it. It is within you.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Whatever we put our attention on, will grow stronger in our life.“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn’t become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Don’t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness“

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.”

Jaggi Vasudev

“If you resist change, you resist life.”

Jaggi Vasudev

“If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That’s the beauty of being a human being.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga”

Jaggi Vasudev

“Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.“

Jaggi Vasudev

“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Don’t think of anything as difficult. Know that we have an even greater power within and according to that we get tasks to do.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“There is nothing to worry about. There will be tough times, nice times, good times, and bad times. They all come in life and go. Nothing stays.“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Welcome each day with a genuine smile from within.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“If it appears as though you are failing, that failure is only to get you towards higher success. This is for sure.“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you but it is not others, it is your own mind.“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Just complaining without looking for a solution is irresponsibility.“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“When you wish good for others, good things come back to you. This is the law of nature.“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Recognize and honor your uniqueness“

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Yoga is a path of liberation from the attachment to both mind and matter. It is a door to the inner world and a life devoted to inner peace.”

Kino Macgregor

“Luckily, the magic of yoga practice is that it effects transformation by asking you to move your body in new ways over a long period of time. When you do, your mind, being deeply connected to your body’s movement pattern, changes. As you learn to access dormant muscles, tissues, bones, and spaces in your body, you simultaneously learn to access dormant thoughts, emotions, feelings, power, and success.”

Kino Macgregor

“Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.“

Kino Macgregor

“When I started practicing yoga I began seeing beauty all around me. The trees, the flowers, the sunsets all seemed to glow with a divine light. Then I started seeing beauty beyond physical form, expressed in compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and love. Finally one day I looked in the mirror and saw beauty within myself.”

Kino Macgregor

“Whether an act of violence is directed towards yourself or another, it’s the seed of violence that yoga seeks to remove.“

Kino Macgregor

“The mind says this or that.
Yoga says both.“

Kino Macgregor

“Yoga practice is a space where failure is welcome. Failure is the only way you can learn from yoga because yoga isn’t about memorizing or perfecting the poses. Yoga is a personal and spiritual journey that strengthens your mental abilities just as much as your physical form.“

Kino Macgregor

“If you misuse a hammer you can do great damage to yourself and your surroundings. Same with asana. If you don’t know how to properly utilize yoga poses, things can lead you off course. Asana can be used as a gateway to a more subtle inner experience. But if you think asana is the goal, then you’ll cut the experience short of its true depth.“

Kino Macgregor

“To be a student of yoga means that your mind is open and you yourself are open to inspiration – inspiration to learn, inspiration to practice, inspiration to find stillness and inner peace.“

Kino Macgregor

“Spiritual practice is not an avoidance of difficulties. It is a return to the remembrance of what you are so wisdom can guide your way.”

Ramana Maharshi

“The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands, and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.”

Ramana Maharshi

“Eventually, all that one has learned will have to be forgotten.“

Ramana Maharshi

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

Ramana Maharshi

“No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.“

Ramana Maharshi

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural state.“

Ramana Maharshi

“Your duty is to be and not to be this or that“

Ramana Maharshi

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.“

Ramana Maharshi

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.“

Ramana Maharshi

“A mind free from all disturbances is yoga.”

Patanjali

“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.”

Patanjali

“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”

Patanjali

“It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.”

Patanjali

“Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.”

Patanjali

“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.”

Patanjali

“Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.”

Patanjali

“The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.”

Patanjali

“It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.”

Patanjali

“The success of yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“The success of yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“In stages, the impossible becomes possible.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.”

T.K.V. Desikachar

“What you seek is seeking you.”

Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

Rumi

“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

Rumi

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

Rumi

“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

Rumi

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

Rumi

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

Rumi

“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

Rumi

“If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.”

Dharma Mittra

“Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.”

Dharma Mittra

“When you are quiet, you see everything with love.”

Dharma Mittra

“With constant practice, 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.”

Dharma Mittra

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

Dharma Mittra

“People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice.”

Dharma Mittra

“Yogis love to be alone.”

Dharma Mittra

“The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.”

Dharma Mittra

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

Dharma Mittra

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

Dalai Lama

“The body can gain health, but without peace of mind no happiness is possible, not even under the best possible conditions.”

Dalai Lama

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama

“The way to change others’ minds is with affection and not anger.”

Dalai Lama

“The point of life is happiness.”

Dalai Lama

“Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.”

Dalai Lama

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.”

Dalai Lama

“When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. ”

Dalai Lama

“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

Buddha

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

Buddha

“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live.”

Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

Buddha

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

Buddha

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Buddha

“If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.”

Buddha

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

Buddha

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

Buddha

“Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.”

Osho

“Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”

Osho

“Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”

Osho

“The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.”

Osho

“Life begins where fear ends.”

Osho

“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”

Osho

“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”

Osho

“To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared.”

Osho

“If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.”

Osho

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Your body’s ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind’s ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Love is what’s left when you let go of everything you don’t need.”

Eric Schiffmann

“The purpose of yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness.”

Eric Schiffmann

“The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Experience yourself in silence.”

Erich Schiffmann

“Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you.”

Eric Schiffmann

“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish, and loneliness.”

Indra Devi

“We must keep both our femininity and our strength.”

Indra Devi

“Yoga is the art and science of living. ”

Indra Devi

“Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.”

Indra Devi

“It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.”

Indra Devi

“I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.”

Indra Devi

“Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.”

Indra Devi

“Freedom is living without chains.”

Indra Devi

“Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.”

Indra Devi

“Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.”

Bikram Choudhury

“The real pleasure, the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.”

Bikram Choudhury

“The right way is the hard way.”

Bikram Choudhury

“Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.”

Bikram Choudhury

“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

Bikram Choudhury

“Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.”

Bikram Choudhury

“No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.”

Bikram Choudhury

“You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.”

Bikram Choudhury

“Until you destroy your body, you don’t learn to appreciate it.”

Bikram Choudhury

“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.”

Geeta Iyengar

“Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.”

Geeta Iyengar

“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”

Geeta Iyengar

“We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.”

Geeta Iyengar

“Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind, and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.”

Geeta Iyengar

“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. If the mind is wandering while practicing, then one is not fully present, and there can be no union.”

Geeta Iyengar

“If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.”

Geeta Iyengar

“When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.”

Geeta Iyengar

“Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.”

Geeta Iyengar

“Until we discover this spiritual center in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied, and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Happiness, therefore, is measured by the tranquillity of one’s mind.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God, and the mystery of all.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Prayer, in its truest sense, is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us, through mental integration.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn’t mean that the sun isn’t always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right.”

John Friend

“Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.”

John Friend

“Be spacious. Open to listen and feel the other without prejudice.”

John Friend

“Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.”

John Friend

“It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.”

John Friend

“Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.”

John Friend

“Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.”

John Friend

“It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul’s most powerful spiritual advancements.”

John Friend

“Creatively express your love through your life. Love is expressed through our hearts, minds, and bodies.”

John Friend

“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“The act of meditation is being spacious.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is, in fact, profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

Eckhart Tolle

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”

Eckhart Tolle

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

Eckhart Tolle

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there’s no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for sport, for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don’t know where it will take you.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When you don’t go within, you go without.”

Yogi Bhajan

“To conquer the unknown you must trust.”

Yogi Bhajan

“You owe it to yourself to be yourself.”

Yogi Bhajan

“Hope is not a prediction of the future, it’s a declaration of what is possible.”

Yogi Bhajan

“There is nothing outside of us. It’s all in us.”

Yogi Bhajan

“It’s not life that matters, it’s the courage you bring to it.”

Yogi Bhajan

“What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.”

Yogi Bhajan

“The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.”

Yogi Bhajan

“The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.”

Yogi Bhajan

“I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.”

Sri Chinmoy

“Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.”

Sri Chinmoy

“World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”

Sri Chinmoy

“Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life.
Our soul thinks of immortality.”

Sri Chinmoy

“True humility means giving joy to others.”

Sri Chinmoy

“The word “impossible” is only in the mind and not in the heart. If we can remain in the heart, there will be no end to our progress.”

Sri Chinmoy

“I meditate so that I can inundate my entire being with the omnipotent power of peace.”

Sri Chinmoy

“Meditation is silence, energizing, and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”

Sri Chinmoy

“To follow the crowd is to miss the destination.”

Sri Chinmoy

“Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Spiritual discipline is the cultivation of love. Be full of love. Taste the exhilaration that love can confer. Let everyone see your exuberant with light and joy.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“The wise are those who know the Self.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Patience is all the strength that man needs.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Real happiness lies within you.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“Take failure and victory cooly.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“By eating flesh one develops violent tendencies and animal diseases.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.”

Sri Aurobindo

“Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.”

Aadil Palkhivala

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

Amit Ray

“Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.”

Kevin Trudeau

“When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.”

Petri Räisänen

“Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.”

Linda Sparrowe

“You are the sky, everything else is just the weather.”

Pema Chodron

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“Yoga is a dance between control and surrender – between pushing and letting go – and when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.”

Joel Kramer

“The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa – steady effort in the direction you want to go.”

Sally Kempton

“Yoga is not about touching your toes, it’s about what you learn on the way down.”

Jigar Gor

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Helen Keller

“The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.”

Jason Crandell

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

Cyndi Lee

“Learning to be present with yourself and to abide in that which is steady and comfortable does not allow space for self-judgment. When you live this way, you are practicing yoga: you are living fully.”

Judith Hanson Lasater

“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”

Jason Crandell

“That’s exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.”

Rodney Yee

“The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.”

Rachel Brathen

“Yoga is not about self-improvement. It’s about self-acceptance.”

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”

Donna Farhi

“True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.”

Craig Hamilton

“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.”

Sakyong Mipham

“Yoga reveals to you the beauty of mindfulness and takes you into the essence of an endless present moment.”

Debasish Mridha

“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation, freedom in routine, confidence through self-control, energy within, and energy without.”

Ymber Delecto

“Yoga is the science of reality.”

Sushil Singh

“You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga.”

Debasish Mridha

“Let your practice be a celebration of life.”

Seido Lee de Barros

“To perform every action artfully is yoga.”

Swami Kripalu

“Yoga is not about what you do. It is about how you do it.”

Adriene Mishler

“Breathe in. Breathe out. Yoga is life itself.”

Andrei Dragomir