Quotations to inspire your practice
“The choice is ours: we can either take steps to make this world a veritable heaven on earth or we can remain as we are.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati "We are meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us: it’s in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
- World Health Organization “Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
- Sun Tzu “A man who thinks he has a spiritual life is really an idiot.” - Swami Rudrananda
"The chaos that takes place in your neurosis is the only home ground that you can build the mandala of awakening on."
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche “Men travel to gaze upon mountain heights and the waves of the sea, broad flowing rivers and the expanse of the ocean, and yet pass by themselves, the crowning wonder.”
- St. Augustine "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix |
“In the practice of Yoga, one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self - and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”
- T. Krishnamacharya “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.” - William Blake
"As in water face corresponds to face, so the heart of man to man."
– Bible, Proverbs 27:19 “Treat the members of your family with love and respect because they act as wings with which you fly.”
– Hazrat Ali (A.S.) , 78AH427 “Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.” - B.K.S. Iyengar
"Much of Oriental philosophy is more sane than anything the West has produced.” - Gregory Bateson
“You must savour the fragrance of a posture.”
- B. K. S. Iyengar "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
- Bruce Lee “For one person to love another, this is the most difficult of all our tasks.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
"To see fully that the other is not you is the way to realizing oneness. Nothing is separate, everything is different. Love is the appreciation of difference."
- Swami Prajnanpad “Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is about what you learn on the way down."
- Judith Hanson Lasater "No mud, no lotus."
- Thich Nhat Hanh "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato "Better is a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit."
- Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:6 |
"The asana is really not the yoga. It is the residue the asana leaves in our minds and bodies and hearts that is the yoga.”
- Judith Hanson Lasater “On sleep depend happiness and grief, fatness and leanness, strength and weakness, potency and impotency, knowledge and ignorance, life and death.”
– Vagbhata, tr. Geeta Iyengar “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” - Reinhold Niebuhr “Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received – only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
- Saint Francis "The end of discipline is the beginning of freedom"
- B. K. S. Iyengar "Serve - Love - Meditate - Realise." - Swami Sivananda
“Heaven and hell are not topographies, but exist as states within our own minds.” - The Buddha
"Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life."
—Dogen Zenji "If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation."
- Dalai Lama "Always laugh when you can: it is cheap medicine."
- Lord Byron "The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure."
- Tibetan proverb |
“When you're finished changing, you're finished.”
- Benjamin Franklin “Just for today, do not be angry
Just for today, do not worry Just for today, be grateful Just for today, work hard Just for today, be kind to others.” - Dr. Mikao Usui, founder of Reiki “In each pose there should be repose.” – B. K. S. Iyengar
"The true servants of the Most Merciful are those who behave gently and with humility on earth, and whenever the foolish quarrel with them, they reply with [words of] peace." - Quran, al-Furqan 25: 63
“Where women are respected, there gods dwell. Where they are disregarded, there all deeds go in vain.”
– Manusmrti, tr. Geeta Iyengar. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Feed the hungry, make the sad ones smile, help the fallen ones to stand up on their feet, unite those who are separated. If you have not helped repair a broken person, counting rosary beads will not get you forgiveness."
- Bulleh Shah, Sufi poet "I contain multitudes."
- Walt Whitman "If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill "It's never too late, it's never too bad, and you're never too old or too sick to start from scratch once again."
- Bikram Choudhury "Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."
- George Carlin "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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