Yogi Quotes

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  Yogi Berra

  Guy, Ems, Hey

  "Yogi Berra: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2015.

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• He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

  Casey Stengel

  Fall, Gold, Watches

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Drug, Pills, Body

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• Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

  Kathy Acker

  Stuff, Energy, Fascinating

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• The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Opposites, Bhajans

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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

  Yoga, Fall, Mean

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• The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

  Sivananda

  Meditation, Mind, Mysterious

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• Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

  Yogi Berra

  Food, Cutting, Thinking

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• When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Money, Giving

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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• By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Jesus, Meditation, India

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• Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Compassion, Humanity

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• In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Order, Brain, Ordinary

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Feet, Brain, Bottom

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• A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mean, Sea, Land

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.19, Rodale

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• A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

  Kathryn Budig

  Teacher, Trying, Add

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• "Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

  T. J. Miller

  Car, Yogi Bear, Bears

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding boss. Perhaps, they pick up a piece of trash that wasn't theirs, turn off a light when they're not in the room, or turn off the water while they brush their teeth, sensitive to the finite nature of our worldly resources. When we become mindful this way, there's a ripple effect. We inspire others to do the same.

  David F. Swensen

  Children, Light, Water

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• When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.

  Donna Karan

  Benefits

  "Urban Zen Integrative Therapy". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

  Yogi Berra

  Teamwork, Player, Guy

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• As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things.

  Brenda Strong

  Exploring The World, Unity, Duality

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• Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

  Yogi Berra

  Wife, Surprise, Buried

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• Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, People

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• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Research, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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