Yoga Meditation Quotes

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

Do your practice and all is coming.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

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

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

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

What you think you become.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

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.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

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.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!