Yoga Quotes - Page 34

• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

  Charlie Chaplin

  Emotional, Suffering, Warning

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• Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

  Dharma Mittra

  Ethical, Known

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• Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)

  Cheri Huber

  Breathe, Can Do, Chuckles

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• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Essence, Meditation, Secret

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints....[The] man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints.... He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Sky, Bird

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• What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

  Jeremy Bentham

  Love, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  Jeremy Bentham (1876). “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.311

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• Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathe, Here And Now, Impermanence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You are Alive!: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

  Bob Dylan

  Becoming, States, Constant

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• We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Years, Brain

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• Things don't change. We change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Don't Change

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• Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

  Laozi

  Heaven, May, Way

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Art, Soul, Mind

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1985). “The art of Yoga”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Mind, Wonderful

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• We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Self, Atman, Spirit

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• Let no one steal your peace.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Stealing

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• You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Nothing To Lose, Loses

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• Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

  Bikram Choudhury

  Keys, Giving, Kingdoms

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• 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

  Strong, Powerful, Creating

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• Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

  Bikram Choudhury

  Giving, Body, Changing Your Life

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• In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Distance, Heart, Mind

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

  Bikram Choudhury

  Fall, Mean, Yogi

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• Cheer up, things will get worse.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Cheer, Cheer Up

  Bikram Choudhury, Bonnie Jones Reynolds, Julian Goldstein (2000). “Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class”, Tarcher

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• The right way is the hard way.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Way, Hard, Right Way

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