Quotes About Yoga

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.

One succeeds in all Yogas through energetic practice—even if one is young, old, very old, sick, or weak.

Hatha is the sanctuary for those suffering every type of pain. It is the foundation for those practicing every type of Yoga.

For those ignorant of Raja Yoga, wandering in the darkness of too many opinions, compassionate Svatmarama gives the light of Hatha.

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

The breath is a bridge between body and mind.

Ordinary sleep gives partial rest, while yoga nidra gives total rest to the body and the conscious mind. Dreaming may be therapeutic in many ways, but dreams that consume sleeping hours are never healthy. Waking, dreaming, and sleeping are the states of mind, and if mind is trained by the practice of yoga nidra, one can consciously go to deep sleep and wake up without being haunted by nightmares and fearful dreams. Here I am

Religions are social sciences which help to maintain culture and tradition and support the lawful structure of human society. Yoga

And the key to perfect self-mastery, these yogis maintain, is svarodaya, the science of breath.

Le yoga est une autodiscipline basée sur ces deux principes : vie simple et pensée élevée.

Tous les yogas exigent en priorité le sens moral, une disposition pour la spiritualité et la pratique régulière des exercices yoguiques.

Pour obtenir une parfaite relaxation, trois méthodes sont employées par les yogis : physique, mentale et spirituelle. Aucune relaxation n'est complète sans atteindre la relaxation spirituelle que seuls connaissent les yogis.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen.

Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.

You can easily tell a Northener: he/she feels guilty doing nothing. Even doing nothing for them is programmed, labeled, and has to be learned using some Yoga instructor.

Just like yoga, skipping provides exercise for the body, mind, and spirit.

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.

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day.

Yoga, a practice that is at the heart of Hindu philosophy and religion, means to yoke. Its goal is to unite man with Brahman, the Hindu concept of 'God' or (god-consciousness). Brahman represents everything. It is seen as the all, the absolute. Brahman is both all good and all bad and is the power and the force of the universe--the god of India.

The show moved along captivatingly. In the same way that the Hare Krishna sect was glorified, suddenly so was Yoga. Yoga! Alarm bells rang in my mind. The Yoga I had seen in India was intense, arduous and serious -- a discipline taught by avowed spiritual masters who prepared their disciples for death. So why did 'Hair's' hero in the song 'Donna' go to India to see the Yoga light? Why was it associated with drugs and reincarnation and presented as such a sweet, new spiritual experience?

One may even state for that true success in all Magic a thorough grounding in Yoga technique is an absolute essential.