Inspirational Yoga Quotes - Page 2

• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

  Annie Besant

  Yoga, Drifting, Applied Science

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, p.13, BookRix

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• Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Self, Sublime

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• There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

  Kathryn Budig

  Inspirational, Yoga, People

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2014

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

  Kripalvananda

  Spiritual, Song, Yoga

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, 2014.

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• In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Letting Go, Yoga

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• 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

  Inspiring, Goal, Spirituality

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.18, Rodale

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• The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Light, Shining

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.27, Rodale

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

  Larry McVoy

  Yoga, Practice, Different

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• The pose begins when you want to leave it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Want, Yoga Practice

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• Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

  Rumi

  Fear, Moving, Yoga

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Feelings, Quality

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• In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Self, Practice

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

  Sri Aurobindo

  Yoga, Practice, Faces

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

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• Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

  Rajneesh

  Inspiring, Moving, Yoga

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• 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

  Regret, Yoga, Goal

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

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• Do your practice and all is coming.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Success, Yoga, Practice

  John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books

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• When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, People, Knows

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “108 Quotes On Love”, p.36, M A Center

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• I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Stars, Yoga

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Writing, Exercise

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

  Rumi

  Hands, Balance, Would Be

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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