Quotes About Harmony

A fusion of nature and soul.

Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature.

The mind (manas) and the breath (prana) are intimately connected and the activity or the cessation of activity of one affects the other.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

hallar un equilibrio de polaridad, no el antagonismo de la dualidad.

The mind does not balance when you force.

Relaxation begins from the outer layer of the body and penetrates the deep layers of our existence.

When an asana is done correctly, the body movements are smooth, and there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

in all asanas, ascend to descend and descend to ascend.

You must keep your balance by using the intelligence of the body (whether instinct, feeling, or ability) but not by strength. When you keep the balance by strength, it is physical action; when by intelligence of the body, it is relaxation in action. Evenness is harmony, and in that evenness alone you learn.

Balance does not mean merely balancing the body. Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life. In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is place, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

Though the mass of our body is heavy, we are meant to tread lightly on this earth.

If the practice of today, damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

Your brain may say, "We can do it." But the knee may say, "Who are you to dictate to me? It is for me to say whether I can do it or not." So you have to listen to what the body says. Sometimes the body cooperates with you, and sometimes it thinks things over.

By interweaving, I mean that all the threads and fibers of our being at every level are dawn into contact and communication with each other. This is how the body and the mind learn to work together.

You must learn to move the brain a bit more slowly so that it follows the body, or you have to make the body move faster to match the intelligence of the brain. Let the body be the doer, the brain the observer.

When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together.

Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.

Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

You see colors no one else can see In every breath you hear a symphony You understand me like nobody can I feel like my soul unfolding like a flower blooming When this whole world gets too crazy And there's nowhere left to go I know you give me sanctuary You're the only truth I know You're the road back home.

This variable composition of man's body hath made it as an instrument easy to distemper; and, therefore, the poets did well to conjoin music and medicine in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.

The voice of Nature will consent, whether the voice of man do or no.