Yoga Quotes

“I value authenticity, and I choose love, not attachment”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“I enjoy good communication and cherish the relationship I have with myself and others”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“While practicing Asanas with deep breathing, we come across the internal resistance. This internal resistance reflects in many areas of our lives. With regular Asana practice with deep breathing, this internal resistance diminishes and we encounter our biggest strengths. This is how regular Asana practice with deep breathing changes our internal body and mind composition.
Purvi Raniga”
― Purvi Raniga

“The illusion we are separate is the biggest lie. We are essential; we are goodness. We are more than individual; we are a part of a collective whole”
― Andrea L. Wehlann, Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga and Spiritual Healing

“Seeing the lovely red
of your lips, darling
the cherries hang themselves
from a tree in despair.”
― Suhas Mahesh, How to Love in Sanskrit

“She does every little thing I like,’ he gushes.
Little does he know
he likes every little thing she does.”
― Suhas Mahesh, How to Love in Sanskrit

“54. Every time you touch me

It teeters on that edge
between pleasure and pain.
Is it a daze? A dream?
Poison swirling in my veins?
Or is it madness?
Your every touch
blurs my senses
with a numbing cold
and a searing heat
all at once.

What Rama Did Next, Bhavabhuti, 700 CE, Kanyakubja”
― Anusha Rao, How to Love in Sanskrit

“Man lives in the body as a prisoner; when his term is over, he suffers the indignity of being thrown out. Love of the body is therefore nothing more than love of jail. Long accustomed to living in the body, we have forgotten what real freedom means. Being a Westerner is no excuse for not seeking freedom. It is vital to every man that he discover his soul and know his immortal nature. Yoga shows the way.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest

“Building of character is the only true practice of Yoga, and it is the only way we can really help humanity. Christ helped the world by His character. It is not that He turned this earth into a heaven. That is not possible. There was just as much evil in the world after He came as before, but by His example He is helping each individual soul to over- come its limitations and to strive toward perfection.
Neither Christ nor Buddha, or any other prophet, claimed to be exceptions. On the contrary, they preached that all can become like them. We can all become perfect characters. But only when we build our characters on the firm foundations of purity, unselfishness, and non-attachment will they be immovable, and become a blessing to all mankind.”
― Swami Paramananda, Vedanta In Practice

“I release and regulate my emotions by giving myself time to reflect and regenerate”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Our bodies are made of water, earth, wind, fire, and ether (emptiness). If the elements are organised and managed well, there will be health and balance. The body will not complain and will be a valuable tool for the hopefully hundred years we are here.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Element cleansing happens naturally when the body is connected with nature. When people are divorced from nature, particularly in high-rise buildings with climate-controlled artificial environments, they lose touch with their bodies. As a result, they become weak and prone to many illnesses and afflictions.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Most people do not put much effort into maintaining their bodies properly, but the body is the easiest and most elemental aspect of life to manage and master. Mastery of the physical elements leads to mastery of the mental and energetic elements.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Pain is productive. Not the sort of pain that generally accompanies humans from birth to grave (with only minor variations), but the pain that accompanies a serious student of life, the sort of pain that pushes one to let go of the known and reach for something else, the sort of pain that makes growth inescapable, irresistible, and irreversible.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“If we taste the fruit ahead and then reroute, we will never again be satisfied with anything less than what we reached for with our higher self.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“We are part animal, and that part of us needs to function well. Otherwise, when we add the higher parts to our animal base, the latter will stress with the weight. The body is not a goal in itself, but it is the medium that makes it possible for us to be here.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Those who are satisfied with temporary life, temporary pleasure, and temporary facilities are not to be considered intelligent, at least not according to Bhagavadgeeta. According to the Geeta, one whose brain substance is very small is interested in temporary things. We are eternal, so why should we be interested in temporary things? No one wants a nonpermanent situation.”
― A.C. Prabhupāda, Beyond Birth and Death

“Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.”
― Erich Schiffmann

“If God liberates Himself within the body, then only there will be true liberation. God is in the human body. He liberates Himself like a scent and taking the form of a person attaining Godhood teaches the seer. This person is the God-the-Preceptor. The explanation runs thus: God, with the help of Yoga, through gradual enfoldment and transformations is seen within the human body as bliss and then again through yogas this bliss being concentrated takes the form of a person and teaches the seer yogas.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“The art of yoga has nothing to do with bending and twisting your body, and everything to do with unbending your mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“If someone wounds your heart, instead of understanding or reasoning or searching for the weapon, spend time, as a mother does to her baby, to care for the hole in your own heart.”
― Andrea L. Wehlann, Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos

“In this task of freeing my mind of superstitions,
Vivekananda was of great help to me. The religion that he preached——including his conception of Yogawas based on a rational philosophy, on the Vedanta, and his conception of Vedanta was not antagonistic to, but was based on, scientific principles”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“Dear God,
make him hang out
with other women more.
He does not seem to realize
what a catch I am.”
― Suhas Mahesh, How to Love in Sanskrit

“The root cause of the world’s troubles is this selfishness born of ignorance. Each person thinks he is doing right; but when he seeks to satisfy only his own interest, he is setting in motion the karmic law of cause and effect that will inevitably destroy his own and others’ happiness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest

“A mature Yoga for excellent health is to stay away from intimacy partially.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Intensity, secrecy, devotion, and constancy are necessary. You don’t know when death will come. Every minute keep your mind on God. Everything you want and need is right within you; seek long and seek deeply. I meditate for hours; I see no one until I am finished. You must make up your mind that you are not going to be bothered by anyone or anything. Then you won’t know time.
That is the only way to find Him. Don’t waste your time. When you are able to live in the divine consciousness, four to six hours of sleep are plenty; you will never feel tired, you will never miss sleep. Sleep is under my control; it is the same with eating. I have something infinitely greater.”
― Paramahansa Yogananada, Man's Eternal Quest

“If only people knew wherein lies their own good! To those who act wrongly the Self is an enemy. Befriend the Self and the Self will save you. There is no other savior than your Self. The fetters of ignorance and bad habits keep you bound. It is because you are determined to follow your wrong habits that you suffer. If only you would picture life a little ahead; lest the time, the precious time that is given you, slip away fruitlessly. The Hindus have a saying: “The child is busy with play, the youth is busy with sex, and the adult is busy with worries. How few are busy with God!”
Banish the imaginary hope that happiness will come from worldly fulfillment. Prosperity isn’t enough, “gracious living” isn’t enough. You want to be eternally happy. Seize the God within you and realize that the Self is Divinity.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest

“VETE ADENTRO

Allí, y sólo allí, hallarás las respuestas que buscas.
La experiencia de otro puede ser tocada, sin embargo solamente

la verdad dentro de ti
puede ser sentida.
¿La sientes?

Háblale a tu corazón, y fluye dentro del río de tu Alma.

El agua del interior te bañará
para liberarte verdaderamente.

Saltando en las aguas, no dejes que las profundidades te atemoricen,

ni las respuestas te asusten.
Pues aquí tú eres el niño que nacerá –
Despierta querido mío.”
― Ulonda Faye

“DESPIERTA A LA BELLEZA

Comunícate con el rocío de tu Alma,
despierta a todo de ti –
tu belleza.

Es tu esencia única que sostiene
tu fragancia que se mantiene
ahora en este continuo presente.
Tú eres bello.
Ámate a ti mismo.

Llega a conocerte,
cada día más.
Enseña lo mismo a tus hijos.
La Tierra se deleita en sus hermosas flores.
Tú eres una hermosa flor.
¿Florecerás?”
― Ulonda Faye

“Use asana as a tool along the path, not as the body's destination.”
― Raegan Robinson