YOGA QUOTES V
quotations about yoga
Yoga is the cessation of mind.
PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras
Yoga in the West has become over identified with the physical, with the form, and with the fashion of the form. This is problematic. If we have a good teacher, we soon see that there is nothing to fear. The idea of yoga is to take care of our physical limitations and get beyond our self-obsession. We learn that we can let go of this ego identification and have a glimpse of a much wider field of experience.
KATE POTTER
interview, LoveToKnow
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
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
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
STING
attributed, The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom