Yoga Practice Quotes:

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

Do your practice and all is coming.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

source: John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books

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

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

topic: Relationship, Positive, Life Changing, Positive Change, Good Posture

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

- Mariel Hemingway

topic: Yoga, Body, Teach, Yoga Practice

Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

topic: Philosophy, Yoga, Class, Yoga Practice

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

source: Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.2, Conari Press

topic: Regret, Yoga, Practice, Journeys And Paths, Appreciate You

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

- Sivananda

topic: Meditation, Consciousness, Awareness, Objectification, Meditation Life

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

topic: Yoga, Practice, Self, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga Peace

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

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

- Alan Cohen

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

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

- Kripalvananda

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

topic: Spiritual, Song, Prayer, Inspirational Yoga, Devotional

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

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Success, Basketball, Sports, Endurance Sports, Yoga Practice

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

- Amit Ray

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

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Suffering, Arguing, Wells, Yoga Practice, New Earth

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Yoga, Reality, Compassion, Yoga Practice

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

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

- Rajneesh

topic: Inspirational, Yoga, Heart, Yoga Inspiration, Yoga Practice

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

- Voltaire

topic: Yoga, Thinking, Knowing, Objectification, Meditation Life

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Happiness, Yoga, Home, Buddhist Monk, Mindful Living

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

topic: Heart, Devotion, Yoga Practice

If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

- K. Pattabhi Jois

source: Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (2010). “Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga”, p.21, Macmillan

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Practice, Spiritual Happiness, Yoga Practice

In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Inspiring, Letting Go, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

- Erich Schiffmann

source: Erich Schiffmann (1996). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stillness”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yoga, Eye, Ears, Yoga Peace, Yoga Practice

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

- Allan Lokos

source: Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin

topic: Yoga, Practice, Meditation, Yoga Practice

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

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

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Flower, Yoga, Yield, Inspirational Yoga, Mind Body

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

- Jack Kornfield

source: Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

topic: Yoga, Compassion, Doe, Wise Buddhist, Women Self Respect

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

- Patanjali

topic: Success, Yoga, Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Inspirational Yoga

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

- Indra Devi

topic: Loneliness, Yoga, Being Alone, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring Yoga

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Yoga, Mean, Feelings, Yoga Practice, New Earth

Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

- Donna Farhi

topic: Yoga, Responsibility, Reality, Transcending, Inspirational Yoga

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

- Sharon Gannon

topic: Yoga, Exercise, May, Inspirational Yoga, Inspiring 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 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

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Inspiring, Yoga, Giving, Inhale, Inspiring Yoga

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

topic: Motivational, Yoga, Light, Inspiring Yoga, Mind Body And Spirit

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Synthesis of Yoga: Art of living”, p.55, editionNEXT.com

topic: Yoga, Practice, Faces, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga Peace

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

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

- Rumi

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

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

The pose begins when you want to leave it.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Want, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga And Life, Yoga Practice, Hatha 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

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

source: Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

topic: Yoga, Practice, Meditation, Inspirational Yoga, Wandering Mind