Meditation And Yoga Quotes

• Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Impulse, Ability

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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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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• 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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• Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Compassion, Meditation

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• Do your practice and all is coming.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Success, Yoga, Practice

  John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

  Ma Jaya

  Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice, Soul

  Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.56, BookBaby

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• If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Men

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Exercise, Movement

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, 2012.

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Trying, Who We Are

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Play

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Being Happy, Health, Healing

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Spine

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Mistake, Past

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

  Rumi

  Fear, Moving, Yoga

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• Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

  John Welwood

  Letting Go, Nice, Inspiration

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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, Yoga

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

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• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Stress, Meditation Practice

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice

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