Yoga wisdom quotes: QUOTES ON YOGA

Sit still. Stop thinking.

ALEISTER CROWLEY, Eight Lectures on Yoga

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, Sadhana: The Realization of Life

The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being's three components: body, mind, and spirit.

STELLA WELLER, Yoga

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

DONNA FARHI, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit

Yoga powers.
To make oneself invisible or small.
To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things.
To change the course of nature.
To place oneself anywhere in space or time...
in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.

JIM MORRISON, The Lords: Notes on Vision

Yoga heals, nourishes, and challenges us. The practice infiltrates every corner of our lives.

VALERIE JEREMIJENKO, How We Live Our Yoga

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

ANNIE WOOD BESANT, Introduction to Yoga

Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted -- in body, mind, and heart -- and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow -- or we begin to flow more in our lives.

CYBELE TOMLINSON, Simple Yoga

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

CARL JUNG, Collected Works, vol. 11

What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

DONNA FARHI, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

CHRISTY TURLINGTON, Living Yoga

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

ANNIE WOOD BESANT, Introduction to Yoga

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

RODNEY YEE, Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

OSHO, Yoga: A 50-Card Practice Deck

For all the practical purposes of Yoga, the man, the working, conscious man, is so much of him as he cannot separate from the matter enclosing him, or with which he is connected. Only that is body which the man is able to put aside and say: "This is not I, but mine."

ANNIE WOOD BESANT, Introduction to Yoga

Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

DONNA FARHI, Bringing Yoga to Life

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing -- I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

RODNEY YEE, Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

Can you remember what it was like to walk in the midst of a world of miracles? Can you remember ever traveling within a world of pure delight with a joy untainted by craving or aversion? What happened to that world? All yoga, including the Buddha's yoga, is often called "the path of return" -- a return to our true home, which we eventually come to see was never really lost.

FRANK JUDE BOCCIO, Mindfulness Yoga

Yoga is the cessation of mind.