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Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
My yoga teacher is a guy from Michigan. 'Yoga Dan' - that's what he calls himself - he's been a big help for me.
One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.
Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick.
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
Everyone is growing and developing. Everyone has to go through a trial and eror process of finding what is right.
If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.
I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.
If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.
Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.
It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.