Yoga Centering Quotes

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga. ~ Patricia Velasquez

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us. ~ Frederick Lenz

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

REAL Peace is always unshakable ... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss' ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. ~ Douglas Groothuis

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. ~ Erich Schiffmann

The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful. ~ Ilyas Kassam

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it. ~ Natalie Dormer

I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s. ~ Dave Davies

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you. ~ Frederick Lenz

It is our duty to use whatever corrective tools and disciplines are available to us to resolve errors that might be compromising our health. In this way, we work to create optimal health in both mind and body to benefit our yoga practice. It is ill advised to use a spiritual goal to bypass what is our duty to correct with human effort. If ~ Shankaranarayana Jois

In a world resistant to change, we have to take matters into our own hands. Modern society and culture fails to support our healing by literally encouraging us to sustain our addictions. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon

Every breath away from the awareness of the present moment is a step away from the Self. ~ Joseph Cyrus

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future. ~ Sivananda

Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love. ~ Dharma Mittra

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there. ~ Cyndi Lee

You been asleep, baby."
My body went still at his words.
Tack kept talking.
"Green tea. Yoga. No TV. Placemats for your coffee table. Thursday night takeaway. You got a night for takeaway. Scheduled. A narrow, little world. Fuck me. Crazy. Fuckin' whacked. I woke you up, opened your eyes to a bigger world and scared you shitless. ~ Kristen Ashley

This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned slowly, and it was the single most beautiful thing, that I started to cry. ~ Erika B.

I would say, the new hipness is #yoga. ~ Peter Max

Spiritual enlightenment includes the realization that there is no 'there' to go to, and no one to go. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy. ~ Adina Porter

Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses. ~ Sadhguru

God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us ... I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God ... We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation. ~ Sun Myung Moon

One has to practice wisdom through living in the present. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You will boost your productivity with active exercise. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Yoga is your mind control capacity. ~ K. Pattabhi Jois

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing. ~ Damon Galgut

It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love. ~ Frederick Lenz

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. ~ Confucius

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning. ~ Russell Simmons

Make the driving force in your life love. ~ Mehmet Oz

Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing. ~ Darren Main

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down. ~ Jim Sullivan

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

DOGS AT WORK AND YOGA AREN'T CULTURE Startups ~ Ben Horowitz

What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. ~ Donna Farhi

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation. ~ Christy Turlington

Yes, yoga may make your company a better place to work for people who like yoga. It may also be a great team-building exercise for people who like yoga. Nonetheless, it's not culture. ~ Ben Horowitz

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto? ~ Arika Okrent

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Don't get all grumpy," I tease, wrapping my arms around him and leaning close.

He growls and then turns, grabbing me up and squeezing my ass.

"You're lucky you're hot," I say, kissing his lips.

"Yeah, well, I'm cursed that my wife is so damn hot. Can't keep them off of you."

"Well, I did wear my best yoga pants," I say, and shrug.

"I told you your ass looked too good in them."

"Give me my smile," I say, and he does as I ask.

He beams at me, giving me that cocky-ass grin with dimples showing. I kiss each one before I kiss his lips, and he grins against me. ~ Alexa Riley

Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice. ~ Christy Turlington

Acharya Balkrishna on Yog

"Who will not be delighted to behold the exotic scenery and flora of the barren lands of Himalayas. Similar is the power of Yog which beautifies the deserted life and fructifies hope in the shattered hearts. By taking refuge in Yog, the fallow mind will blossom into flowers indeed. ~ Acharya Balkrishna

See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon