Inspiring Yoga Quotes

• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Yoga, Silence

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Heart

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Goal, Spirituality

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.18, Rodale

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

  Darren Hardy

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Giving

  "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

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• It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Divinity

  "Yoga Connects You to the Perfection You Seek" by Vyda Bielkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Success, Yoga, Exercise

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.8, Rodale

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• You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Asana, Natural

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• You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Spine

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• The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

  Rodney Yee

  Success, Yoga, Mind

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• You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

  Rajneesh

  Success, Yoga, Frustrated

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Light, Shining

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.27, Rodale

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Hate, Yoga, Breathing

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• Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

  Rumi

  Fear, Moving, Yoga

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• Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

  Rajneesh

  Inspiring, Moving, Yoga

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• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

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• Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Yoga, Symphony

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6”, p.129, Allied Publishers

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• Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

  Sting

  Success, Yoga, Way

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