Yoga Quotes - Page 29

• The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Strange

  "Lonesome Traveler".

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• Truth is one, paths are many.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Path, Truth Is

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• I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wisdom, Siddhartha, Vedas

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Self, Class, Ties

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• The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Humanity, Divinity, Awakening

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• The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Rome, Way, Facts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Games, Becoming

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• Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Moving, Healing

  "Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying". Book by Ram Dass, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2001.

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• As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Long, Desire

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• The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Roots

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• Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Relationship, Wall, Kindness

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Learning

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• No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Humble, Exercise, Meditation

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

  Hermann Hesse

  Buddhist, Men, Years

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Mma, Preparation

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• Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

  Dan Brown

  Bed, Masters, Robes

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Science

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• Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

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• Work is love made visible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiring, Work, Inspirational Life

  The Prophet "OnWork" (1923)

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• The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Giving, Tapas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1062, Manonmani Publishers

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• Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Effort, Forever, Divinity

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

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• From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong, Wind, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• [C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Jesus, Strong, People

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