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Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.
I am learning something new everyday, be it learning piano or enrolling myself for online courses, reading, writing or doing yoga.
I really like to hike. L.A. is a great place for that. And doing yoga a couple of times a week is a really big part of my regimen.
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.
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 I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
Maybe the yoga I do helps me to play as much as I do. It certainly gets you in the right frame of mind, stretches and relaxes you.
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.
I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.
All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.
Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.
The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.
Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.
For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.
I've started doing Bikram yoga. You're in a boiling hot room, bending over pretending to be a locust, you can't do that at the gym.
Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could get your Realization.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
I'm really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
It's like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one.
If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
Sometimes I go through a yoga phase or a spinning phase, but I try to vary my workouts so my body doesn't get used to any one thing.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.
Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.
I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.
In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.