1,338 Quotes About Yoga

Relationship with another is like gazing into a still pond. You will either see your own face reflected or the depth of the water, but never both at the same time.

An advanced yoga practice has less to do with what happens when you roll out your mat and move through your practice and more to do with what happens when you roll up your mat and move through life.

Injuries happen on the yoga mat all the time, but they never happen when we are truly practicing yoga. For instance, most yoga-related neck injuries happen when you strain yourself trying to see what is happening on the yoga mat next to yours.

Pain is powerful medicine. While it may be unpleasant to take this medicine, it is what shapes and inspires us. As you review the story of your life, you will find that growth was almost always preceded by hardship—the loss of a job, the passing of a loved one, challenges with health, the end of a relationship. Rather than avoiding pain, yoga asks us to surrender to it, to look deep into it, and to be healed by it.

The good news is that attachment is not an industrial strength glue that binds the mind to condition-based happiness. You can free your mind at any moment by simply letting go—simply relax the mind the way you would unclench your fist.

Meditation is a method-less act.

Procrastination is the enemy of accomplishment—not simply because thetask you are avoiding fails to get done, but because all of your other goals and objectives get mired in the same sandpit as well.

The ego mind is like a plant growing in a very small pot. While the pot may beattractive and ornate, its size doesn’t allow the plant to express its full potential.

Yoga and meditation not only give us the ability to enjoy the beautiful moments in life, but also the ability to fully embrace the difficult and ugly moments. So often we define success in our practice by the way we feel in a given moment, but practice is never about select peak moments. Practice is about celebrating the fullness of life—the difficult and the easy, the beautifuland the ugly, the savory and the sweet