Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
Jaggi VasudevRead
Yoga is not a practice - the word 'yoga' means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Yoga is about unity and connection in life, not just physical postures.
This quote emphasizes that yoga transcends physical exercises and embodies the concept of union. It's about experiencing a deep connection with oneself and recognizing everything in life as interconnected, fostering a sense of wholeness and belonging.
Themes
YogaUnionLifeConnectionMindfulness
In practice
Example use cases
In a yoga class discussing the essence of yoga beyond the physical postures.
More from Jaggi Vasudev
All quotes →For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
Jaggi VasudevRead
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
Jaggi VasudevRead
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
Jaggi VasudevRead
Similar quotes
None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
Pope John Paul IiRead
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.
Richard RortyRead
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman MelvilleRead
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo MayRead
The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.
Roger ScrutonRead
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
D. H. LawrenceRead