Yoga Meditation Quotes

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills. ~ Ringo Starr

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes. ~ Peter McWilliams

The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect. ~ Arianna Huffington

The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

But the quality of human beings is only one - and that is how much they love and forgive. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are. ~ Adyashanti

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ~ Walter Bagehot

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power ... ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold. ~ Rod Stryker

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep. ~ Liz Miller

Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. ~ Alan Watts

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ~ Swami Sivananda

Vibrations are nothing but Divine Love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The attention is to be kept pure. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service. ~ Colleen Saidman

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. ~ Sivananda

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. ~ Eknath Easwaran

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Welcome to your body. ~ Bryan Kest

Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love, love, love. How much you love others is the main point. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time! ~ Jennifer Aniston

If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete absorption which takes place. And then it manifests. This is how the Divine Power works within us. So with our gravity, what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the Divine Power and manifest. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

We are only actors and yet we identify so intensely with the part we are playing, that we forget our true Self. Through yoga meditation, Self- inquiry, and living in accord with natural law do we wake up from the dream, or at least realize we are the dreamer. ~ Richard Fish

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Because all actions and expressions
stem from the mind, it is vital to know the
mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what
about psychosomatic wellness? ~ H.E. Davey

I need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga helps me to some degree, but I haven't been able to figure out meditation yet. I have a feeling it would be very good for me, but unfortunately, I'm still holding it all in until I explode part of my life. ~ Tricia Helfer

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. ~ Swami Satchidananda

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. ~ Amit Ray

Your attention has to be on your Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it? ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Now if the will of God is so important, it has to be proved. And now through Sahaja Yoga, after the breaking of the Sahasrara, you have now for the first time felt the will of God, which is such an important thing. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way. ~ Amanda Beard

Innocence is the source of love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way. ~ Gillian Anderson

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form. ~ Ramana Maharshi

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Memorizing someone else's explanation of the truth isn't the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is - the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we're clinging to a description of something that's not ours. What's more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it's right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts - the truth of which we've never genuinely seen for ourselves. ~ H.E. Davey

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

Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of auto-suggestion, and mind and body coordination drills, as well as principles for the unification of
mind and body.

These principles of mind and body coordination are regarded as universal laws that express the workings of nature on human life. As such, they can be applied directly to an endless number of everyday activities and tasks. It is not uncommon when studying Japanese yoga to encounter classes and seminars that deal with the direct application of these universal principles to office work, sales, management, sports, art, music, public speaking, and a host of other topics.

How to use these precepts of mind and body integration to realize our full potential in any action is the goal. All drills, exercises, and practices of Shin-shin-toitsu-do are based on the same principles, thus linking intelligently a diversity of arts. But more than this, they serve as vehicles for grasping and cultivating the principles of mind and body coordination. And it is these principles that can be put to use directly, unobtrusively, and immediately in our daily lives. ~ H.E. Davey

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices. ~ Ramana Maharshi

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Providence knows best. ~ Michael Beloved

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ Alan W. Watts

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are. ~ Bryan Kest

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away. ~ Frederick Lenz

I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess. ~ Jessica McNamee

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery. ~ Rod Stryker

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

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

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

As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation. ~ Valentina Zelyaeva