Yogic Quotes
16 quotes by 11 authors
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In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as…
— Russell Simmons
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Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto…
— Edward Abbey
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In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body and progressing through…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and…
— Robert S Ellwood
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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Surround yourself with those who are moving very quickly towards Unity. Be in the presence of those who are running forward. Besides the knowledge the…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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We create through our voice, through the power of our voice. So, when a person frees up their voice energies, from a yogic standpoint, they're…
— Tom Kenyon
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There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and…
— Frederick Lenz
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The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth…
— Richard Rosen
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The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.
— Rod Stryker
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The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that…
— Giancarlo Esposito
Who Wrote These Yogic Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 16 Yogic Quotes as follows: