YOGA QUOTES V
quotations about yoga
If you look at the images of yogis strewn across the Internet, you'd have to believe that all yoga practitioners are continuously and exceptionally happy. In fact, it may have been one of the reasons you've decided to take up yoga yourself. Yoga has been marketed as a positivity pill and that promise of unbreakable cheer has attracted many to it. The downfall has been an increasingly dangerous pressure on yogis and yoga teachers to cleave to a facade of positivity no matter what the situation. This skin deep display keeps us from experiencing and expressing our real truths that are much more healing and helpful to society than going around simulating bliss.
LARA LAND
"The Positivity Problem: Why Yoga Imaging Must Go Deeper", Huffington Post, February 3, 2016
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 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
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
STING
attributed, The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom
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