Om Yoga Quotes

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

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

Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

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

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.

My workout is my meditation.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

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

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

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.