Yoga Sutra Quotes

I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm. ~ Mark T Bertolini

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms. ~ Amit Ray

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things ~ James Connor

Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called "Hatha-Yoga". In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.
By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:
1.Raja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation
2.Karma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties
3.Hatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises
4.Jyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge
5.Bhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal God
The purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The true entity of all phenomena can only be understood and shared between Buddhas. This reality consists of the appearance, nature, entity, power, influence, inherent cause, relation, latent effect, manifest effect, and their consistency from beginning to end. ~ Burton Watson

When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts. ~ Patricia Curtis

It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga, than teaser in Pilates, than the elliptical or the Reformer. Rebecca thought that if no one had thought of it yet, soon enough someone in the city would spearhead a craze for tree climbing in Central and Prospect Parks, and it would become the talk of every cocktail party: have you tried that large oak by the Sheep Meadow? Oh, it's completely changed my body. ~ Anna Quindlen

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. ~ Nhat Hanh

The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible. ~ Stephen Lang

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

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? ~ Bikram Choudhury

If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story. ~ Karan Bajaj

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

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga. ~ Aleister Crowley

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

I do a lot of yoga, and when I'm in L.A., I have an outdoorsy sort of lifestyle. It's sort of comfortable, West Coast, yoga chic. ~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored. ~ Sadhguru

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody. ~ Ram Dass

These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga - Samadhi. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation. ~ Kristian Bush

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world. ~ John Friend

She had streaked blonde hair, long and straight, parted in the middle framing high cheek bones, an aquiline nose and beautiful deep blue eyes. She was young, around 30, tall and lithe with a good body, athletic, not skinny. She wore a sleeveless black dress that exposed her toned arms and shoulders, indicating regular workouts or yoga. There was a hint of vein running the length of her lean muscle. This girl stood out like an arabian in a corral full of draft horses. ~ Nick Hahn

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it. ~ Jennifer Aniston

A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive. ~ Rod Stryker

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

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me. ~ Michael Franti

Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

For me the path of Yoga has always been a battle as well as a journey, a thing of ups and downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light.

Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.372 ~ Sri Aurobindo

In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss. ~ Bee Wilson

I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced. ~ Miranda Kerr

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel. ~ Fred Alan Wolf

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer. ~ Frederick Lenz

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous. ~ Frederick Lenz

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha ~ Abhishek Kumar

Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered. ~ Rajneesh

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We don't make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse. ~ Chris Kilham

Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

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

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

On the occasion of yoga day, I want to offer you the simplest form of yoga: Namaskar - Yoga for all. ~ Sadghuru

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert