Sayings

“Breathing is our most fundamental and vital act and holds a divine essence; exhalation a movement towards God, and inhalation an inspiration from God” – Lino Miele in his book Astanga Yoga

Most men are as happy as they make their minds up to be

– Abraham Lincoln

“I love you, you love me. You could have told me.”

– Woody Allen in Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex, (but Were Afraid to Ask).

Wake Up!

– Anthony de Mello, Awareness

Let go.

Let go, Let God.

So Hum. I am That.

Om Namah Shivayah

Life takes life out of you. Yoga puts it back.

– Yoga Now, Chicago

It’s about becoming less, not more.

Look down the tip of your nose like a snob. Bow down as if you were regurgitating. Extend your arm to infinity. Your arm is like a cobra (talking about the binds of Marichyasana)

– Richard Freeman

Draw you navel to the spine. Energy in and up! Pull the lower ribs in. Lengthen through your groins. Inhale, extend. Exhale, surrender - Teacher sayings

“His mala is a garland of yoga, in which each vinyasa is like a sacred bead to be counted and focused on, and each asana is like a fragrant flower strung on the thread of the breath.”

- Eddie Stern, Forward to Yoga Mala by Sri K. Pattabi Jois

“Two roads diverged into a wood” - The Road Less Traveled, by Robert Frost

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

– From the Bhagavad Gita

Lead us from the unreal to the real, from darkness into light, from death to immortality

– Upanishads

Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodah. Yoga is the cessation of the activities of the chattering of the mind.

– Pantajali’s Yoga Sutras, Book 1. Sutra #2

“Health is Wealth. Peace of Mind is Happiness. Yoga Shows the Way.”

– Swami Vishnudevanada

What you think, you are

– Satya Sai Baba