The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
I think it's worth trying to do something about obvious sources of stress in your life. But even more important is learning and practicing methods to neutralize the harmful effects of stress on the body and mind. There are many possibilities, anything from meditation and yoga to listening to relaxing music. My personal favorite is simple breathing techniques - they're very effective, take very little time, and they're free.
The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.
My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.
In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.
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