Quotes on Yoga

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

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.

The best way out is always through.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

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.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.