Best yoga & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.”

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“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Donna Farhi

“The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.”

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Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil.”

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Author:Rod Stryker

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”

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Author:Ram Dass

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

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Book:The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

“You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.”

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Author:Sivananda Radha Saraswati

“The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”

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Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the whole you, the whole of the experience of being human, and the nature of the universe in which you live. There may be no step more important to achieving ultimate fulfillment than accepting what the Vedas teach us about desires--that some desires are inpsired by your soul.”

Source: The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom

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