Yoga Quotes - Page 21

• Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and reclaim the innate wisdom of your body. But it is only after you rediscover the self-luminous nature of your own mind that you will begin to experience the true power of asana. That discovery comes from the meditative aspect of yoga.

  Rajmani Tigunait

  Strong, Discovery, Self

  "The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: A Q&A with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait". sedonayogafestival.com. April 25, 2014.

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• We need to bring the spiritual dimension back into yoga and encourage students to look for teachings and practices that will take them to the next level.

  Rajmani Tigunait

  Spiritual, Teaching, Practice

  "The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: A Q&A with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait". sedonayogafestival.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

  Patanjali

  Noble, Purpose Of Life, Method

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• With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

  Patanjali

  Blessing, And Love, Love And Respect

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• Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

  Patanjali

  Silence, Mind, Essentials

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• The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

  Patanjali

  Vision, Doubt, Apathy

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• If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

  Patanjali

  Mind, Rising, Ripple

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• Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

  Patanjali

  Practice, Way, Firsts

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

  Patanjali

  Perfection, Grace, Body

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• The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Reading, Soul

  Alice Bailey, Patanjali (2012). “The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali”, p.112, Lucis Publishing Companies

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

  Patanjali

  Moments, Present Moment

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• The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

  Patanjali

  Different, Consciousness, Inference

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• Yoga is mind wave quieting.

  Patanjali

  Mind, Mindfulness, Wave

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• Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Movement, Arrivals

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Practice, Our Actions, Action

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Practice, Attention, Pay

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Giving, Doe, Information

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Heart, Body, Flexible

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• Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Practice, Get Better, Principles

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  People, Focus, Quality

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• Yoga, unlike dance or mime,
  is not an expression of form for others to watch.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Expression, Watches, Form

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1980). “Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice”, p.46, University Press of America

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• I get really bored really easily, so I'm a big believer and advocate of changing it up. One day, I'll do a power yoga or hot yoga day, and then go into a more intense day of HIIT training or boxing. I always have a bit of dance in there too.

  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Boxing, Bored, Training

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I could go on for days about why I love yoga. One of my favorite parts is I can't think about anything else other than doing what the teacher tells me to do. For me, someone who has a million things going on at any given moment, that kind of surrender is liberating. I also learn so much about myself - my limitations, my potential, how to be mindful of an injury.

  Donna Karan

  Teacher, Thinking, Goes On

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle" by Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

  Donna Karan

  Practice, Long, Remember

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

  Donna Karan

  Practice, Lists, Baths

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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