“ Spirituality is not a religion or a trend—it is a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of awareness that combines the understanding of faith, body, mind, and soul, allowing us to live modern-day enlightened l… Emma Mildon
“ He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because… James Connor
“ Meditation is defined by not just the mode of thinking, but also the object of thought Chaitanya Charan Das
“ Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but t… Abhijit Naskar
“ You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into imp… B.K.S. Iyengar
“ It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox. Donna Goddard
“ 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 th… Prem Prakash
“ That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value. Allan Lokos
“ The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scri… Prem Prakash
“ It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed. Patañjali
“ In the end, what I love most about contemporary yoga is its ability tosynthesize the everyday with the extraordinary, the practical with thevisionary, the mundane with the sacred. I love that yoga can… Carol Horton
“ Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions. George Minot
“ The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. Ross Douthat
“ You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again. Bikram Choudhury
“ Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations… Amit Ray
“ The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hu… Ellen DeGeneres
“ Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can’t help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible. Edward Vilga
“ By becoming clearly contemplative in a matter of weeks, my prayer had been given a particular and novel cast; and this was matched by the distinctness in the reprecussions my daily sessions of exercis… Jean Déchanet