Yoga Quotes - Page 17

• Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

  Patanjali

  Success, Practice, Mind

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• A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

  Patanjali

  Mind, Wellness, Disturbance

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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

  Compassion, Meditation, Mind

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• Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

  Patanjali

  Meditation, Mind, Abiding

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• For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
  near them, waiting.

  Patanjali

  Meditation, Waiting, Spirit

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• Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

  Allan Lokos

  Health, Suffering, Different

  Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

  Allan Lokos

  Practice, Meditation, Ifs

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin

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• Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Mind, Mastery, Clarity

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• I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

  Miranda Kerr

  Garden, Rose, Meditation

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Play, Truth Is, Conscious

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Order, Mind, Made

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

  Donna Karan

  Two, Different, Wonderful

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.

  Karan Bajaj

  Karma, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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.

  Karan Bajaj

  Essence, Opposites, Practice

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Practice, Weight

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in a completely random place like Mongolia or Portugal or Bhutan. Then when I come back, I am much more intuitive, creative, right-brained. That kind of system has been working very well for me.

  Karan Bajaj

  Bhutan, Years, Goal

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding. When I used to kill myself in the gym, it had an adverse effect on me because my body would be so stressed out and constantly in fight-or-flight mode.

  Laura Prepon

  Swimming, Fighting, Adverse Effects

  "Laura Prepon launches a book to help others heal from weight and digestive issues using integrative medicine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment.

  MC Yogi

  Fall, Practice, Important

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

  MC Yogi

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

  Adam Levine

  People, Hours, States

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• People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Sports, Two, Talking

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury". Interview with Zoë Kors. Part I, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Sports, Breathing, Body

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury Interview Part I: Zoë Kors". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Thinking, Simple

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating with the universe and getting the inspiration for different kinds of breath. Basically, I'm into the movement of breath and the shapes of breath. The different kinds of sequences of breath. I like doing that a lot.

  Alex Ebert

  Inspiration, Breathing, Ideas

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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