- “True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.” – Aadil Palkhivala
- “Change is not only inevitable, but always happening. When you truly embrace this concept of change being constant, the only thing left to do is grow, detach, venture inwards, touch the spirit and find your source -the one responsible for keeping you grounded through the ever-changing seasons of life.” – Julie Weiland
- “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho
- “Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” -Rolf Gates
- “Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”
-Patañjali - “The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.”
– Amit Ray - “Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.”
-Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra - “The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. ”
-Swami Satchidananda - “Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”
– Sharon Gannon,Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness - “Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.”
-Evita Ochel - “The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.”
-Sadghuru - “Do your practice and all is coming.” -Sri Pattabhi Jois
- “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.” -Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi
- “The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.” -Geeta Iyengar, daughter of B. K. S
- “The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga.”-Yogi Bhajan, Guru of Kundalini Yoga
- “Put you heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”-Swami Sivananda, founder of Sivananda Yoga
- “Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.” – Jason Crandell,
Yoga Teacher - “The path of yoga is the path of self-discovery. As our self-image disintegrates, we contact our true self. Life becomes a great joy.” – Amrit Desai, Yoga Teacher
- “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”-B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga Master
- “Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists.”-Anonymous
- “You cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own.” – Rumi
- “Breath is life.” – Krishnamacharya
- “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” -Zen Shin
- “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” – The Bhagavad Gita
- “Peace comes from within, do not seek it without.” – Buddha
- “As the mind, so the man; bondage or liberation are in your own mind.” – Sanskrit saying
- “The strength of a tree lies in its ability to bend.” – Zen
- “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tsu
- “The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.” – T.K.V. Desikachar
- “Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
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