Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind. — Naval Ravikant
Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body. — Deepak Chopra
Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Meditation is listening to the divine within — Edgar Cayce
Meditation is the key to unlocking your full potential. — Wim Hof
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. — Patanjali
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience. — Eknath Easwaran
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength. — Miranda Kerr
Solve all your problems through meditation. — Lahiri Mahasaya
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. — Owen Feltham
Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. — Naval Ravikant
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy. — B.K.S. Iyengar
A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga. — Patanjali
Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. — Erich Schiffmann
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness. — Hakuin Ekaku
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. — Sharon Salzberg
Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. — Swami Muktananda
Top 10 Meditation And Yoga Quotes
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. — Dalai Lama
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. — Patanjali
Meditation And Yoga Image Quotes
Everything you need, you courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already within you.
What Is Yoga Quotes
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. — Nhat Hanh
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. — Jaggi Vasudev
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I’m doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It’s my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am. — Valentina Shevchenko
Mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha
Everything you need, your courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already within you.
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. — Ricky Williams
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. — Sharon Gannon
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? — Jeremy Bentham
Yoga And Life Quotes
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
Smile, laughter and meditation are all privileges of human life.
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. — Sivananda
Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. — Donna Farhi
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
If ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water with with air.
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization. — Luther Standing Bear
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. — Nhat Hanh
Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. — Swami Satchidananda
Yoga Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. — K. Pattabhi Jois
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart. — K. Pattabhi Jois
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. — Jaggi Vasudev
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Yoga Practice Quotes
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — Jack Kornfield
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. — B.K.S. Iyengar
In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes. — Donna Farhi
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are. — Adyashanti
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. — Kripalvananda
Prayer And Meditation Quotes
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence — Susanna Wesley
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge. — David Brainerd
For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach. — Queen Elizabeth II
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use. — George Muller
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft. — Saint John Chrysostom
If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear. — John R. Rice
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. — Dean Koontz
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great. — Leonard Bernstein
Meditation Life Quotes
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. — Sivananda
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. — Eckhart Tolle
We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur. — Russell Simmons
Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. — Swami Muktananda
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. — Amit Ray
Meditation Practice Quotes
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. — Mary Pipher
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through. — Chogyam Trungpa
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity. — U.G. Krishnamurti
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility. — Gary Snyder
When we meditate regularly, we view our stresses and problems with a lot more clarity. With practice, we become detached observers. We start to understand that there's a lot of self-generated noise that exists entirely in our own minds. — Rangan Chatterjee
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out — Katherine Dunham
Meditation And Prayer Quotes
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. — David Brainerd
Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God. — Folorunsho Alakija
Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred. — Katrina Kenison
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. — Bill W.
If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer. — James Van Praagh
In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else. — Peter Julian Eymard
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel. — Leonard Bernstein
Once the vision of the fulfillment of your dream has been planted in your mind, bring it in to your prayer life. Each time you pray the picture to mind and meditate on it. Pray over it. See it happening. Destroy all the images of failure. Replace them with the image of success. — Phil Pringle
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. — Marianne Williamson
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. — Michael Beckwith
Buddhist Meditation Quotes
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. — Ajahn Chah
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others. — Milarepa
I'm expressin' with my full capabilities,
And now I'm livin in correctional facilities.
Cause some don't agree with how I do this,
I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist. — Dr. Dre
If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. — Buddha
In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done. — Milarepa
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. — Nhat Hanh
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. — Sakyong Mipham
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it! — Taisen Deshimaru
Mindfulness Meditation Quotes
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. — Saint Francis de Sales
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform. — Pythagoras
It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace. — Prem Rawat
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day — Deepak Chopra
Healthy attachment doesn’t mean losing yourself in someone else; it’s about finding a balance between closeness and individuality. — Amir Levine
To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing. — Peggy Whitson
Identify the things that are challenging in your day based on how you develop your own focus and then coming up with a strategy specifically for that. — Christina Koch
Avoid the rabbit holes that can kind of lead to us not being our best selves and not feeling great… — Christina Koch
When I competed in jiu-jitsu and judo, I had losses. We never accept to lose, but we learn that it’s not the end of the world. It’s not. — Amanda Nunes
I’m not going to the past, and it’s not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important – to move forward every time. — Valentina Shevchenko
You have to remain centered at all times and never let her push you off that center. — Corey Wayne
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga. — B.K.S. Iyengar
While you’re in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you’re actually taller when you land. — Christina Koch
I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else. — Kylian Mbappe
There’s days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don’t. You just pray that doesn’t happen the night of the fight. — Holly Holm
Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this. — R.K. Narayan
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation. — Deepak Chopra
The more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I thrive. — Elliot Page
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy. — Kathryn Budig
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned. — Vijay Kedia
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. — Buddha
As much as I enjoy growing my wealth, I also realize that there’s a point of diminishing returns if I don’t take care of myself and my well-being. — Paul Jarvis
You must constantly meditate on God’s word because what you meditate on and for how long you meditate on have an effect on your lifestyle. — Enoch Adeboye
The universe whispers until it screams, and happy people listen while the call is still quiet. — Brianna Wiest
Fragrance is my favorite thing. So much so that if I leave the house and I don’t put any on, I’ll turn around and go back home. — Meghan Markle
I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac. — Susan Strasberg
The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. — Rodney Yee
Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore. — Peggy Whitson
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. — Richard Hittleman
I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self. — Hannah Bronfman
If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it. — Brianna Wiest
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