Quotes on Yoga

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability