YOGA QUOTES V
quotations about yoga
Oh asana is vital to the practice of yoga, quite definitely. Yoga is, after all, a body-based practice. It is through the body that we attain freedom. The body is our vehicle to move deeper into awareness. It's what we know, what we can touch, feel, and what we see tangible results from in our practice. Yoga uses the physical body as a doorway into self-awareness and surrender.
LINDA SPARROWE
interview, Yoga Teacher Magazine
Yoga is the cessation of mind.
PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras
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.
AMIT RAY
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle
When I think of yoga, I first think of the first Sutra: "atha yoga anushasanum" ... now, the practice of yoga. The "now" is all we have, right? To practice yoga is not to hope for something more ethereal or better in the future, some intangible enlightened moment. It is to discover our now (not someone else's) and to let go of our hold on the past, which has ceased to exist, and to stop dwelling on the future, which has never existed.
LINDA SPARROWE
interview, Yoga Teacher Magazine
The aspirant would do well to avoid those "spiritual teachers" who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is like a lion with himself, always striving to eradicate that which shadows his inner light, and like a lamb with others, always striving to see their inner light, no matter how dense may be the clouds that hide it. He is the king of the jungle of his world. He hides from no one and seeks escape from nothing.
PREM PRAKASH
The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
STING
attributed, The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom