Yoga wisdom quotes: Yoga Quotations

~ This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ~ Bhagavad Git a

~ Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~ Svatmarama

~Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.~Baxter Bell

~ Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ~ Bhagavad Gita

~ Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed. ~ Bhagavad Gita

~ In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death]. ~ Bhagavad Gita

~ 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

~ 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 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

~ If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~ Terri Guillemets

~ Yoga is 99% practice and 1% knowledge. ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

~ This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake. ~ Bhagavad Gita

~ The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga. ~ Bhagavad Gita

~ 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