Yoga Quotes - Page 39

• Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.

  Alan Finger

  Car, Tuning, Function

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• If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

  Alan Finger

  Real, Oneness, Awareness

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• A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

  Alan Finger

  Worship, Guru, Needed

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• When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.

  Alan Finger

  Spirit, Quiet, Consciousness

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• Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once.

  Alan Finger

  Particular, All Things

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• You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts.

  Alan Finger

  Products

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• When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

  Alan Finger

  Karma, Tunes, Knows

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• Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

  Alan Finger

  Spirit, Consciousness, Feels

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• Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

  Alan Finger

  Ego, Soul, Range

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• Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

  Alan Finger

  Peaceful, Mind, Reason

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• Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

  Alan Finger

  Garden, Years, Add

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• In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

  Adyashanti

  Mean, Meditation, Body

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.23, Sounds True

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• How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

  Hafez

  Listening, Lasts, Masters

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• May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Water, Lotuses

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• Don't believe everything you think.

  Unknown

  Motivational, Wisdom, Believe

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Positive, Strength, Heart

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• Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Profound, Relaxation, Purpose

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Men, Essence, Civilization

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is important not to abandon the practice of yoga because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Motivation, Believe, Practice

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

  Cyndi Lee

  Breathing, Meditation, Events

  Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.32, Penguin

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• Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Eye, Psychics, Practice

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

  Miranda Kerr

  Focus, Routine, Helping

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Picked up the yoga, put down the soda.
  My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over.
  Life of a stoner (if you still concerned),
  I never lose, I only win or learn;
  It's all about your state of mind.

  Dizzy Wright

  Rap, Winning, Hip Hop

  Song: State Of Mind, 2014

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• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Rocks, Climbing

  "Ennifer Lawrence On 'Hunger Games,' 'Transformers' Announces World Premiere In Today's Dailies" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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