Quotes on Yoga

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.