34006. “Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” ― B.K.S. Iyengar May 24, 2021
34005. “Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” ― B.K.S. Iyengar May 24, 2021
34004. “Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.” ― Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10 May 24, 2021
34002. “The word “yoga” literally means “uniting”, because when you’re doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, “Ouch, that hurts,” and your body will say, “I know.” And your mind will think, “You have to get out of this position.” And your body will say, “I agree with you, but I can’t right now. I think I’m stuck.” ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding May 24, 2021
34001. “What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.” ― Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10 May 24, 2021
34000. “Knowing ourselves is the beginning of all transformation. Of ourselves. Of our relationships. Of our world.” ― Nicola Jane Hobbs, Thrive Through Yoga: A 21-Day Journey to Ease Anxiety, Love Your Body and Feel More Alive May 24, 2021
33999. “It is impossible to give your best effort without mindfulness.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33998. “Society mainly uses the concept of self to make the individual less unpredictable.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33997. “Be like a tree standing planted by a dead river bed, until you transform into the confidence of your own stream of consciousness flowing from the sea of your own inner depths.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones May 24, 2021
33996. “After Peace Corps, I kept at it. I was back in Houston, I had a lot of spare time, and I spent it at midday yoga classes at expensive studios to which I would buy discounted first-time packages and never return. This period, around 2011, reintroduced me to the world of American abundance. The first time I went into a grocery store and saw how many different fruits there were, I cried. At these yoga classes, I marveled at the fanatic high functionality of the women around me…I was not, at the time, on their level: I had been taking giardia shits in a backyard outhouse for a year straight, and I was flooded with dread and spiritual uselessness, the sense that I had failed myself and others, the fear that I would never again be use to another human being.” ― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion May 24, 2021
33994. “We define meditation as thinking about one thing continuously. Therefore, many people mistake it for concentration. But meditation is not concentration. Concentration is forceful, while meditation is effortless, involving no force at all.” ― Kamlesh D. Patel May 24, 2021
33992. “But every evil brings its own remedy. Another quality of Saturn is melancholy; Saturn represents the sorrow of the universe; it is the Trance of sorrow that has determined one to undertake the task of emancipation. This is the energizing force of Law; it is the rigidity of the fact that everything is sorrow which moves one to the task, and keeps one on the Path.” ― Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga May 24, 2021
33991. “The purpose of yoga is not to put your foot behind your head. Or do the splits. Or perfect a handstand. Yoga is about more than pretty poses. It’s about healing. Thriving. Understanding what it means to be truly alive.” ― Nicola Jane Hobbs May 24, 2021
33990. “You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33989. “Yoga is the way of our approach to the goal, that is, a way of getting connected to our objective. Etymologically, the word Yoga in Sanskrit means to add, to be united. In other words, it is the means to join or be united with our goal.” ― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life May 24, 2021
33988. “Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Yoga is the art of challenging the body, mind, intellect and soul to reach the highest potential within.” ― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being May 24, 2021
33987. “You can alter your emotions by changing your breathing patterns. Yoga breathing can release the untold stories inside you.” ― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath – Beautify your Life May 24, 2021
33986. “God is in every particle in the Universe. No religion, no prophet can make division on it.” ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity May 24, 2021
33985. “There are millions of neurons in the brain. Humming Om chanting create resonance patterns between different brain regions that foster subsequent long-term plasticity changes in the brain.” ― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being May 24, 2021
33984. “In the spiritual path, if you are dependent on any person or organisation, you can’t grow. At some point in time, you need to drop all dependency and walk alone with all humbleness and sincerity. In the silence of mind, eternity arises.” ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity May 24, 2021
33983. “Often they think they are just doing the postures (asanas), but very few people ask about the spiritual implications of the asanas, or even know that they exist.” ― Armin Weidle, Bowing to Yoga? May 24, 2021
33982. “And now. This moment. It moves too fast. This is the practice, the way we slow down time. Each breath is a gift, each one an opportunity for reflection, focus, and purpose. What’s gone is gone. What’s ahead isn’t real. I take each breath as it comes. Here. Now. I am here now.” ― Sasha Brown-Worsham, Namaste the Hard Way: A Daughter’s Journey to Find Her Mother on the Yoga Mat May 24, 2021
33981. “The unfolding of life is best enjoyed when the mind’s arms are folded.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33980. “Life is not only the dance and the dancer but also the song.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33979. “God accepts whatever is offered with love, whether it is a meal, a piece of clothing, a chant (mantra), a thought, or the soul (jiva).” ― Mukul Shri Goel, Devotional Hinduism: Spiritually Connecting to God May 24, 2021
33978. “As we love God, wish to see him, develop a sense of belonging, and work for him, faith blossoms to produce refuge in him. Refuge is about leaving everything to God.” ― Mukul Shri Goel, Devotional Hinduism: Spiritually Connecting to God May 24, 2021
33977. “As we remember the Personal God, chant his name, clean his temples, or read tales of his play on earth…we start liking God. The expressive mind experiences the feeling of affection towards our preferred form of God. When this bond of love is purified by the addition of selflessness (nishkama mode) to it, love becomes true love or bhakti.” ― Mukul Shri Goel, Devotional Hinduism: Spiritually Connecting to God May 24, 2021
33976. “Ten Things to Do In January • Read a good book • Get a Library Card • Walk 30 minutes a day • Send a Birthday card to a friend • Invest in a Fitness Tracker • Buy a Coin jar and save those quarters and nickels • Donate to a Charity • Volunteer 45 minutes of your time to an Organization • Take a Yoga Class • Volunteer at Bingo night at a Nursing Home” ― Charmaine J Forde May 24, 2021
33974. “For ‘The scent of yoga’ she chose Black Lapsang because its smoky opening always made her think of incense and sacred spaces- which is what she tried to create in her former dining room, but without using joss sticks because she didn’t think they went well with deep breathing. She closed her eyes as the perfume developed to reveal its Assam-tea middle note, which made her think immediately of that first yoga breakfast with Shirlee and Maxine and the yogi bears.” ― Maggie Alderson, The Scent of You May 24, 2021
33973. “The smells I associate with yoga are contradictory. Freshly showered bodies and sweat. Sandalwood from a scented candle mixed with hot feet on rubber mats. Head-clearing pure air, ozonic freshness- and deep oriental mystery. Stillness and invigorating renewal. Feminine grace and masculine strength. Anima and animus. My scents of yoga are: Madagascan Jasmine by Grandiflora Lime Basil and Mandarin Cologne by Jo Malone London Exhale by B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Pour Monsieur by Chanel Oud by Maison Francis Kurkdjian New West for Her by Aramis Black Lapsang by Bodhidharma Santal by Diptyque (my favorite candle for the yoga studio)” ― Maggie Alderson, The Scent of You May 24, 2021
33972. “To make man superman, add the word ‘super’ to the word ‘man’; or meditation to his day.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33971. “Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33970. “Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33969. “Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33968. “Life is a symphony to the wise. And a cacophony to the foolish.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33967. “Some of us would take our time, if we knew that we are rushing to our deaths.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33966. “Reality is stationary, but is given the illusion of movement by our memory.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33965. “The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33964. “The name of a thing gets in the way of us seeing more of it.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33963. “Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33962. “Your inner world is full of treasures, yoga is your key to open the door.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33960. “Let every cell dance, love in harmony and breathe through yoga poses.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33959. “Yoga is not a theory, but a journey towards to find your inner bliss and reveal its magnificence.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33958. “Yoga is not about mastering posture and different poses, it is about taking control over the thoughts that control us.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33957. “Yoga lets you shine the lights within you so that you can see your inner world and its beauty.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33956. “Yoga is a simple journey to discover your own beauty and bloom like a flower.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33955. “Yoga is an attractive, inquisitive and practical expression of true love for your inner self.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33954.“Yoga is a journey to find yourself, your flexibility, your inner strength, your inner beauty. It helps shape yourself to improve adaptability.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33952. “Yoga is not to fit in, but to become flexible and nimble enough to blend in and find the true rhythm and harmony of life.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33951. “Yoga is not about practicing your defined poses. It’s about what your body learns, how nimble and flexible you become, and what experience you gain throughout the process.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33950. “Yoga and meditation let our body and mind blossom with every breath to create a joyful and harmonious life.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33948. “Yoga breathing control or pranayama is a joyful song that soothes, purifies, energizes and harmonizes our body, mind and soul to create inner healing. So, practice singing the song of pranayama.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33947. “Yoga is a journey to create harmony among the body, mind, spirit and nature to find a serene and blissful life.” ― Debasish Mridha May 24, 2021
33946. “The mind is a wonderful problem-solving machine without which there exists not even a single problem.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33945. “We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33942. “Coupled with the living guidance of a successive lineage of realized Dharma masters (enlightened rishis and Acharyas) stretching back to the beginning of time, and still present in our own era, the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma originates from transcendent perfection. (p. 107)” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33941. “The yogi must be prepared to plunge deeply and fearlessly into the ecstatic reality of the sweet Absolute. Nothing less than this sweetness of devotion will suffice. Nothing greater than this sweetness is to be attained. This is the essential teaching of the Bhagavad Gita.” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33940. “This transcendent realm of Truth can be compared to the overwhelming majesty and power of a mighty rushing river. That Truth is ever-dynamic, ever-fresh, unalterable, unstoppable, and alive with spiritual power. That river of Truth has the power to quench our thirst and our longing for the nectarean sweetness of Reality unlike anything else in existence. That river of Truth is the only sustenance our soul will ever need. When directly encountered by any liberated yogi, that mighty river of Truth is experienced in its dynamic form. When this very same yogi then reveals this transcendent Truth to others in the material world, however, this dynamic Truth now becomes concretized in the form of the Vedic scriptures (shastra).” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33939. “The eternal flow of Truth is a non-empirically-audible sonic reality that transcends the realm of human sensory purview or intellectual speculation, but that is nonetheless directly accessible to any sincere seeker who eventually reaches the stage of being a liberated yogi. Such transcendent Truth can only be known by purifying oneself through the practices of Yoga, meditation and devotional consciousness (bhakti) toward the Supreme Godhead, and reforming one’s character to the point of dissolving illusory ego completely. It is this living, transcendent Truth that the perfected sages encounter in the yogically inspired state of non-mediated spiritual perception of the Absolute.” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33938. “Truth, including the very highest of spiritual and philosophical truths, can be known to us with ever-increasing depth and clarity. We can know truth, both in theory, as well as through direct experiential insight, by employing the Vedic tools of Yoga and meditation, all under the capable guidance of the Vedic scriptures, the authentic guru, and the power of our own sincerity and direct insight into the nature of the Absolute. This is the Vedic way of knowing. (p. 80)” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33937. “You are not the body, you are not the mind. You are not associated with any religion or prophet. You are eternally free, the Supreme Truth.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations May 24, 2021
33936. “When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone.” ― Stephen Cope, The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling May 24, 2021
33935. “Praying makes you feel like you are talking to God. Meditating makes you feel like you are God.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33933. “What is meant figuratively by ‘mindfulness’ is meant literally by ‘mindlessness’.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33930. “They who have gone beyond the duality of pain and pleasure have nothing to escape or chase.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33929. “Who among us has never, at some contemplative point in our lives or another, asked the truly big questions, questions about the ultimate meaning of the world we find around us, and of our lives within it? Questioning the reason for our human existence is a very natural pursuit on the part of any intelligent human being (manushya). Indeed, unlike any other species of life, human beings alone have been gifted by God with the unique cognitive ability to engage in self-reflection upon our very own existence as human beings. To be human means to question what it means to be human.” ― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way May 24, 2021
33928. “Not being in the present moment is like not paying attention to someone you are with, because you are thinking about someone else with whom you were; or will, could, or should be; or could or should have been.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33926. “You cannot be unhappy, or even depressed, while you are not thinking.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33925. “We start living in heaven as soon as we leave life … the hell alone.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 24, 2021
33924. “Yoga teaches me to be patient and keep practicing. It all happens when the body learns to keep right balance, with right strength when mind learns to be calm in most uncomfortable position and breath is constant.” ― Purvi Raniga May 24, 2021
33923. “DON’T LET THE THINGS THAT LOWER YOU, COVER YOU!” ― Qwana M. “BabyGirl” Reynolds-Frasier May 24, 2021
33922. “DON’T TAKE IT PERSONAL TAKE IT SPIRITUAL” ― Qwana M. “BabyGirl” Reynolds-Frasier May 22, 2021
33921. “Food should be eaten fresh. Food is not only physical substance but shakti, or energy, a manifestation of Consciousness in living beings. (p. 72)” ― James Swartz, Meditation: Inquiry Into the Self May 22, 2021
33920. “This path‘s basic technique is the discrimination between the real and the unreal, the seer and the seen, the subject and the object, the ego and the Self, and is meant to be practiced both in the seat of meditation and in daily life. The meditator should continually strive to bring his or her thought life in line with the experience of the Self garnered in meditation and elsewhere. For example, if I think there is something wrong with me, that I am unworthy or impure, for example, I need to square this idea with the experience of myself in meditation as a whole and complete being.” ― James Swartz, Meditation: Inquiry Into the Self May 22, 2021
33919. “If action yoga suggests a change in attitude toward action, knowledge yoga requires a change in the way we think. Ordinarily, because the intellect is Self-ignorant and under ego‘s passionate influence, its concepts cause suffering. To right the inner disharmony, knowledge yoga aims to detach intellect from ego and train it to identify with and think from the Self. „Thinking from the Self“ means that impersonal truth, not personal prejudice, becomes the center of one‘s thought life, the point from which thoughts originate and to which they return. Self-ignorance manifests first as a confused and unrealistic thought life, then trickles down to disturb and delude the emotions, eventually contaminating in one‘s contact with the outer world. Because it eliminates incorrect, ignorance-born, ego-centered thoughts, reality-based knowledge produces a harmonious, clear and luminous subtle body, one suited to meditation. (p. 64)” ― James Swartz, Meditation: Inquiry Into the Self May 22, 2021
33918. “If action yoga suggests a change in attitude toward action, knowledge yoga requires a change in the way we think. Ordinarily, because the intellect is Self-ignorant and under ego‘s passionate influence, its concepts cause suffering. To right the inner disharmony, knowledge yoga aims to detach intellect from ego and train it to identify with and think from the Self. „Thinking from the Self“ means that impersonal truth, not personal prejudice, becomes the center of one‘s thought life, the point from which thoughts originate and to which they return. Self-ignorance manifests first as a confused and unrealistic thought life, then trickles down to disturb and delude the emotions, eventually contaminating in one‘s contact with the outer world. Because it eliminates incorrect, ignorance-born, ego-centered thoughts, reality-based knowledge produces a harmonious, clear and luminous subtle body, one suited to meditation. (p. 64)” ― James Swartz, Meditation: Inquiry Into the Self May 22, 2021
33917. “Spiritual enlightenment includes the realization that there is no ‘there’ to go to, and no one to go.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33916. “The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33915. “Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33914. “Yoga has undoubtedly altered my inner truths by expanding my mind into the body and mind connection.” ― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom May 22, 2021
33913. “Your quality of life is not based on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself” ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running May 22, 2021
33912. “Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33911. “We are alive the most when we are awake but our mind is not.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33910. “Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33909. “What is seen can never be nearly as much a wonder as seeing.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33908. “For the past ten days, I’ve had a migraine that follows me like a shadow. One hundred and forty-two hours of incessant pain, an eight on the ten-point scale. My doctor has suggested codeine, which I refused, because once I took too much Percocet after a tooth extraction and threw up for twenty-four hours straight. I have a CT scan, an MRI, I go to the neurologist—the readings are all inconclusive. I’m told it’s a migraine with an unknown cause. Have you tried yoga? they say.” ― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans May 22, 2021
33907. “Once you are spiritually awakened, wherever you are is the best spot from which to watch the Drama of Life; and what is happening is the best and most important scene.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021
33906. “Life is a single never-ending event that is divided into innumerable mostly-ending events by the mind.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana May 22, 2021