Quotes on Yoga Practice

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.