Yoga Quotes

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.

~ Amit Ray

Self-care is how you take your power back.

~ Lalah Delia

I honor you for every timethis year you:got back upvibrated highershined your lightand loved and elevatedbeyond—the call of duty.

~ Lalah Delia

Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.

~ Amit Ray

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

~ Kripalvanandji

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

~ Susan Pease Banitt

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

~ Donna Quesada

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile.(From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

~ Donna Quesada

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

~ Anne D. Leclaire

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

~ Donna Quesada

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is like a lion with himself, always striving to eradicate that which shadows his inner light, and like a lamb with others, always striving to see their inner light, no matter how dense may be the clouds that hide it. He is the king of the jungle of his world. He hides from no one and seeks escape from nothing. (88)

~ Prem Prakash

Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

~ Aleister Crowley

In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I’m often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don’t have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

~ Robin Sacredfire

What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.

~ Nina Hrusa

Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

The more you listen to your breath, the more you can hear the voice of your soul.

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Vibrate higher daily.

~ Lalah Delia

If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.

~ Donna Goddard

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

~ Amit Ray

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

~ Donna Goddard

I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling.Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again.Fear. I hadn't even known it was there.

~ Claire Dederer

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

~ Amy Ippoliti

[I]t 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. . . . (20)

~ Ravi Ravindra

The Yogic system does not talk about God. It does not talk about the soul or heaven. Such talk invariably makes people hallucinatory. Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you- these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you created.

~ Sadhguru

Dance less in motion and more in spirit, awaken the dreamer within.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach, as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Hearts shall dance once again, when canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Don't be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness - reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.

~ Tiffany Luard

I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi.

~ C.g. Jung

History is nothing new.

~ Bert Mccoy