Yoga proverbs

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◆ 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.

- Pata?jali99

◆ Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

- Amit Ray99

◆ When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

- Donna Quesada99

◆ PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

- Susan Pease Banitt99

◆ When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

- Donna Quesada99

◆ Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

- Pata?jali99

◆ 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 Ray99

◆ Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)

- Ravi Ravindra99

◆ The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

- Swami Satchidananda99

◆ Everything is sorrow for the wise.

- Pata?jali99

◆ Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

- Anne D. LeClaire99

◆ Compassion is the religion of the heart.

- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati99

◆ I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had to do was figure out how to do it out there, in my life.

- Claire Dederer99

◆ That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)

- Victoria Moran99