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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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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• Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Compassion, Humanity

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• In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Order, Brain, Ordinary

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mean, Sea, Land

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.19, Rodale

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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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• In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.

  Robert S Ellwood

  Views, Practice, Interesting

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• Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

  Mahavatar Babaji

  Responsibility, Attachment, Enlightenment

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

  T. J. Miller

  Thinking, Yogi Bear, Interviews

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

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• See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

  Guru Nanak

  Order, Conquer The World, Brotherhood

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• A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  God Love, Hundred, Pure

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• The yogi in love needs only to whisper the beloved name, and all desire is fulfilled. To hear Shyamdas speak of The Lover’s Life is to be transported into the eternal magical realm of love, where infinite possibilities become possible.

  Sharon Gannon

  Names, Desire, Needs

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• I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.

  Judd Apatow

  Two, Voice, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

  Don Baylor

  Baseball, New York, Father

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• Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

  Yogi Berra

  Wife, Surprise, Buried

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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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• 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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