Yoga Quotes - Page 9

• In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Simple

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• Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Practice, Mind, Body

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• Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Emergencies, Birth, Obstetricians

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• Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.

  Tara Stiles

  Love, Inspirational, Moving

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• God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

  Bede Griffiths

  God, Easter, Humility

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• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

  Rod Stryker

  Tradition, Achieve, Aspects Of Life

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Water, Effort

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• Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Mind, Wavering

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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• Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.

  Erin Hamlin

  Games, Relax, Sitting

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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, Meditation

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

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• What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Practice, Two

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.384, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath.

  Grace Gealey

  Connections, Awareness, Breaths

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

  Narendra Modi

  Men, India, Harmony

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• Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

  Sting

  Journey, Long, Enough

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• I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Practice, Spirit, Calm

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

  Paula Patton

  Training, Weight, Kickboxing

  FaceBook post by Paula Patton from Feb 10, 2016

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• When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Practice, Grace

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• I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Fitness, Training, Gymnasiums

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• I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.

  Donna Karan

  Practice, Meditation, Soul

  "A Conversation With Fashion Designer and Philanthropist Donna Karan". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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  If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• In the same way that the physical practice of yoga so effectively benefits your body and mind, the larger science of yoga is similarly powerful in unlocking the vast potentials of your body, mind and spirit to help you achieve your best life imaginable.

  Rod Stryker

  Powerful, Practice, Mind

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• Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Quality, Highest

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• Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Ideas, Knowing

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• The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discrimination

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