Yoga Meditation Quotes:

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

- Alan Cohen

topic: Yoga, Space, Want, Space Between, Meditation Life

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

- Bob Harper

topic: Yoga, Youth, Fountain, Inspiring Yoga, Stretching

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Needs, Cures, Inspirational Body, Meditation And Yoga

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Peace, Yoga, Inspiration, Special Needs, Special Needs Children

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

- Caroline Myss

source: Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014

topic: Inspiring, Inspiration, Positivity, Soul Healing, Meditation And Yoga

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.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live Life To Its Fullest, Souls In Love

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

- Sting

topic: Success, Yoga, Way, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Taken, Thinking, Accomplishment, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

topic: Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life, Meditation Mind

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.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism, Get Over Yourself, Inspirational Buddhist

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Positive, Buddhist, Hate, Meditation And Yoga, Daily Buddhist

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

- Pema Chodron

topic: Practice, Meditation, Trying, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

topic: Self, Meditation, Way, Yoga Meditation

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.

- Adyashanti

topic: Silence, Meditation, Different, Meditation Mind, Radiant

Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

- Amit Ray

topic: Reality, Meditation, Universe, Meditating, Yoga Meditation

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

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Anchors, Sky, Breathing, Meditation Mind, Meditation Mindfulness

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.

- Amit Ray

topic: Yoga, Writing, Exercise, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

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

- Rajneesh

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Yoga, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

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

- Sogyal Rinpoche

topic: Meditation Practice, Mind, Mountain, Meditation Mind, Dark Clouds

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

- Amit Ray

topic: Yoga, Soul, Mind, Mind Body And Soul, Vipassana

What you think you become.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Power Of The Mind, Inspirational Buddhist

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

- Rumi

topic: Moving, Way, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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.

- Kathryn Budig

topic: Inspiration, People, Envy, Inspirational Meditation, Inspirational Yoga

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Spine, Young, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Sweat, Goal, Meditation And Yoga, Penetration

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.

- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

source: "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

topic: Yoga, Surrender, Approach, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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.

- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

topic: Inspiration, Practice, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Yoga Meditation

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

- George MacDonald

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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

topic: Yoga, Heart, Meditation And Yoga, Yoga Inspiration, Yoga Meditation

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

- Ma Jaya

source: Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.56, BookBaby

topic: Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life, Meditation Mind

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

source: FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

topic: Journey, Giving, Meditation, Meditation Life, Inspirational Meditation

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

- Amit Ray

topic: Meditation, Divinity, Blossoming, Meditation Life, Inspirational Yoga

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.

- Patanjali

topic: Yoga, Compassion, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

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

- Darren Hardy

source: "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

topic: Yoga, Meditation Practice, Giving, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

- Amit Ray

source: Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

topic: Meditation, Anxiety, Live In The Moment, Meditation Life, Meditation Mind

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

- Rodney Yee

topic: Success, Yoga, Mind, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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

- Alan Watts

topic: Life, Discovery, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

source: "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, p. 22, 2014.

topic: Yoga, Mind, Want, Meditation And Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

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

- Walter Bagehot

source: Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

topic: Long, Meditation, Calming, Meditation And Yoga, Intervals

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

- Owen Feltham

source: Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.32

topic: Greatness, Glasses, Perspective, Daily Meditation, Finitude

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

- Richard Gere

topic: Inspiration, Reality, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

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

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Emotional, Meditation, Impulse, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Mindfulness

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

- Sivananda

topic: Pain, Meditation, Joy, Meditation And Yoga, Finitude

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.

- Ringo Starr

topic: Practice, Meditation, Mountain, Wacky, Meditation And Yoga

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

source: B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6”, p.129, Allied Publishers

topic: Inspiring, Yoga, Symphony, Inspirational Body, Meditation And Yoga

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good