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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
Oct 1, 2025
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.
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.
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Do your practice and all is coming.
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.
When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
You are only as young as your spine is flexible.
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.
Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
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, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.