Meditation And Yoga Quotes - Page 2

• 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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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, More Time

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

  Ringo Starr

  Meditation Practice, The End Of The Day, Mountain

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

  Alan Watts

  Dance, Journey, Play

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

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

  Sivananda

  Pain, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Hate

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  Walter Bagehot

  Long, Calming, Great Work

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Writing, Exercise

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

  Richard Gere

  Inspiration, Reality, Practice

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• It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

  Paul McCartney

  Meditation Practice, Lifelong, Meditation Life

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• Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Sweat

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.45, Rodale

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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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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• I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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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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• Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

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

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• Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Heart, Only Love

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  The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

  Caroline Myss

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Healing

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Success, God, Yoga

  "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

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• Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Success, Yoga, Meditation

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, p. 22, 2014.

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