Best yoga & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.”

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Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.”

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Author:Mike White

“It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.”

“Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no one to realize the Self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

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Author:Ken Dychtwald

“I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.”

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Author:Taylor Schilling

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world of fear, yoga promises strength and courage. A healthy body and a disciplined mind are the foundations of a world free from fear. In crafting a new self through Yoga, we create a new world.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.”

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Book:As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace

Source: As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace

“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.”

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Author:Satyananda Saraswati

“What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.”

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Book:Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

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