Yogi Quotes

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  Yogi Berra

  Guy, Ems, Hey

  "Yogi Berra: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2015.

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• He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

  Casey Stengel

  Fall, Gold, Watches

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Drug, Pills, Body

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• Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

  Kathy Acker

  Stuff, Energy, Fascinating

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• The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Opposites, Bhajans

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• Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Fall, Mean

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• The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

  Sivananda

  Meditation, Mind, Mysterious

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• A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Feet, Brain, Bottom

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• A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

  Kathryn Budig

  Teacher, Trying, Add

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• "Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

  T. J. Miller

  Car, Yogi Bear, Bears

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Don't try to do this by yourself: to become a good yogi you need a teacher. Find a teacher you can bow to, who can teach you how to be kind - how to serve others - because the key to enlightenment lies in that. Be humble, work hard, study and practice. Chant the Name of God, do japa and meditate, every day.

  Sharon Gannon

  Teacher, Lying, Hard Work

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Yogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me.

  T. J. Miller

  Yogi Bear, Way, Bears

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• In fact many Hindu yogis and Sufis met, they became friends, they spoke about the knowledge and love of God; about all the similarities that exist. And then the simplicity of Islam, the fact these people practiced what they preached brought many, many Hindus into Islam.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  People, Simplicity, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

  Mickey Mantle

  Beautiful, Baseball, Funny Things

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• I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Jesus, Meditation, India

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• God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Effort, Grace, Realization

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• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Psychics, Crow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Sleep, Doe, Tortoises

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Climbing, Feet

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding boss. Perhaps, they pick up a piece of trash that wasn't theirs, turn off a light when they're not in the room, or turn off the water while they brush their teeth, sensitive to the finite nature of our worldly resources. When we become mindful this way, there's a ripple effect. We inspire others to do the same.

  David F. Swensen

  Children, Light, Water

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• Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.

  T. J. Miller

  Real, Yogi Bear, Bears

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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