Yoga Quotes

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.

We have to constantly ask ourselves: "Who am I?"

We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn't exist.

You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.

We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.

The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Samadhi is the actual awareness of what you really are.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

Jnana yoga is practical.

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.