Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.”
“Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
“Yoga is not killing the mind or making it dead or Stoney, but it is making the mind divine, compassionate and deeply peaceful, so that it can merge with the Infinity.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.”
“Yoga is not something a person practices with music or mirrors or any other distraction. It's purpose is less about samyoga than it is about viyoga, which is to say, it is more about disconnecting than it is about connecting which many Westerners find strange, until they hear it explained. The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering.
The author of the ancient Yogatattva Upanishad believed that without the practice of yoga, it was entirely impossible to set the atman free. The atman, of course, is the soul. And just as the rani said, we are so burdened down by our daily worries that many of us have become no different than beasts. We walk around eating and drinking and caring very little about our purpose in this life. Some of us are not even very clever beasts. We are merely trudging through our work, yoked to some terrible master or job. The goal of yoga is to changed all of this; to remind the human who has become like an ox that their yoke and harness can be taken off, even if it's only for a few minutes a day, and that through silencing the mind, we can silence greed, and hunger, and desire as well.”
Source: Rebel Queen
“Yoga is not stopping the mind and making it dead or Stoney, but yoga is making a divine, lighted, compassionate and peaceful mind.”
Source: The Science of 114 Chakras in Human Body
“Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
harmonyof the body, senses, mind
and intellect, reason, consciousness
and self. When all these are integrated
that is true yoga.”
“Yoga is often referred to as a moving meditation. In yoga, one goes deeply inward, connecting with the Divine while simultaneously moving the body in a beneficial and life-enhancing way. One does not force the pose or fall asleep. It is awake, reverent attention.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“Yoga is only a means and not the end.”
Source: योगीको आत्मकथा [Yogi ko Aatmakatha]
“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.”
“Yoga is pure science, and Patanjali is the greatest name as far as the world of yoga is concerned. This man is rare. There is no other name comparable to Patanjali. For the first time in the history of humanity, this man brought religion to the state of a science..
Yoga says experience. Just like science says experiment, yoga says experience. Experiment and experience are both the same, their directions are different. Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can do inside. Experience iS an inside experiment
Yoga is not a philosophy. It is not something you can think about. It is something you will have to be; thinking won't do. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality. It is just a part, a functional part; it can be trained.
Yoga is concerned with your total being, with your roots. It is not philosophical. So with Patanjali we will not be thinking, speculating. With Patanjali we will be trying to know the ultimate laws of being: the laws of its transformation, the laws of how to die and how to be reborn again, the laws of a new order of being. That is why I call it a science.
Patanjali is like an Einstein in the word of Buddhas. He is a phenomenon. He could have easily been a Nobel Prize winner like an Einstein or Bohr or Max Planck, Heisenberg. He has the same attitude, the same approach of a rigorous scientific mind.
And if you follow Patanjali, you will come to know that he is as exact as any mathematical formula. Simply do what he says and the result will happen. The result is bound to happen; it is just like two plus two, they become four. It is just like you heat water up to one hundred degrees and it evaporates.
That's why I say there is no comparison. On this earth, never a man has existed like Patanjali.”
Source: Yoga: the Alpha and the Omega, Volume 1
“Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.”
“Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment.”
“Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.”
“Yoga is revolutionary as it can change the way we treat the world and the life force within it”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.”
“Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.”
“Yoga is something that once you start practicing it you learn a lot of breathing skills and I think that would really be incredibly useful on a day-to-day basis. It can help you with all the emotional stress.”
“Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.”
“Yoga is the art and science of living.”
“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”
Source: Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.”
“Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.”
“Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body”
“Yoga is the cessation of mind.”
“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.”
“Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.”
“Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.”
Source: Astadala Yogamala Volume-3
“Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.”
“Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.”
“Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.”
“Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.”
“Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.”
“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.”
“Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.”
Source: Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class
“Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.”
“Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.”
“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.”
“Yoga is the practice of radical transformation”
“Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is the religion of truth, health, harmony, compassion, and creativity.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Yoga is the science of "stirring up" the fiery serpent and "leading" her up through the intermediary energy centers, to where Leviathan is, in the seventh center, so that the fiery serpent can join with Leviathan, and through a spiritual sexual union with her, partake of the universal energy, the energy that is in the Primordial Serpent, but beyond the individual.”
Source: Sick Of The Palsy
“Yoga is the science of well-being and youthfulness. It is the science of integrating the body, mind, and soul.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.”
“Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”
“Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.”