Yoga Quotes · Page 49

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

— Frederick Lenz

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

— Nirmala Srivastava

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

When you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away.

— Frederick Lenz

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

— Carl Jung

“The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.”

— Darren Main

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being…

— Frederick Lenz

Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives.

— Frederick Lenz

I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know,…

— Questlove

“Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and…

— Anonymous

“A closet is not a prison cell. There are no bars on the windows, locks on the doors, or shackles binding your…

— Darren Main

Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints…[The] man who is…

— Rajneesh

You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have…

— Sivananda

I say I'm the strongest in the NFL, but the yoga has helped me to a point where I can't be moved…

— Mike Daniels

“We still remain fully engaged in living, including all its ups and downs, but with moment-to-moment awareness, mental clarity, emotional stability, and…

— Julie T. Lusk

Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

— Christy Turlington

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick.…

— Bikram Choudhury

Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.

— Frederick Lenz

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.

— Anonymous

I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go…

— Linda Evangelista

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

— Frederick Lenz

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.

— MC Yogi

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am…

— Frederick Lenz

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

— Frederick Lenz

When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.

— Britney Spears

In yoga, you need to focus on staying in the moment in a sometimes uncomfortably hot room. That focus and alertness help…

— Garrett McNamara

Yoga is really all about process, acceptance, and becoming more present, and I really want to show that it can expand off…

— Mandy Ingber

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

— Frederick Lenz

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

— Frederick Lenz

Divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your spirit shines into it.

— Nirmala Srivastava