YOGA HALE
Yoga: Sanskrit Word Meaning, to Yoke Oneself to God Hale: Hawaiian Word for House
Yoga Quotes
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Buddha
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
"Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light . . ."
Osho
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.” George-Louis Leclerc Debuffon (French naturalist devoted to science.)
"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."
Swami Vivekananda
"Happiness is the longing for repetition." Milan Kundera
"Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success." Hatha Yoga Pradipika
"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's Yoga Sutras
"When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath." Hatha Yoga Pradipika
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
Buddha
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
Tom Robbins
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God [light] and devil [ego] are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." Fyodor Dostoevsky
"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
Buddha
"‘Upaasana’ is ‘dhyaana’ or concentration or meditation. A form is required for concentration. Reality is always the same and changeless. ‘Brahman’, as the Ultimate Reality, is Formless. But ‘Upasana’ of a form is done with a purpose, namely, the attainment of a given benefit. The purpose to be attained by worshipping or concentrating on a form differs. The scriptures tell you how to meditate and on what all forms and with what results. For ‘Upasana’, you have to follow the ‘shastras’ or Scriptures. The different ‘Upasanas’ are all aids in the path to the ultimate goal, namely, understanding ‘reality.’ Scriptures prescribe ‘Upaasana’ in order to train the mind to concentrate. ‘Upasana’ is the affair of the individual; there is nothing collective about it." Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
"When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” Tom Robbins
"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise." Mother Teresa
"In the worldly, selfish life people live for themselves, using their scientific knowledge for themselves, while in the religious life that same scientific knowledge is utilized for others. Even in the religious field, if people are selfish they are really living a worldly life."
Swami Satchitananda
"If you really want to know who I am, you will have to be absolutely empty..." Osho
"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed--borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves." Osho from This Modern Mystic
“In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.” Patanjali
"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I?' After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand that on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realize that you are the limitless being. "
Nisargadatta Maharaj in I Am That
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu in The Tao Te Ching
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." Rumi
"Unless there is some relationship or connection, nobody goes anywhere. If any men or creatures come to you, do not discourteously drive them away, but receive them well and treat them with due respect. Shri Hari (God) will be certainly pleased if you give water to the thirsty, bread to the hungry, clothes to the naked and your verandah to strangers for sitting and resting. If anybody wants any money from you and you are not inclined to give, do not give, but do not bark at him like a dog." Sai Baba of Shirdi
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve
and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Henry David Thoreau in Walden
"If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."
Swami Vivekananda
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
Saint Augustine
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." Mother Teresa
"No person is an untouchable. Differences come, not with the work one does nor the caste into which one is born, but with the state of mind. Essentially we are all one and the same. All are God’s children" Swami Satchitananda
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power." Milan Kundera
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free." The Dalai Lama
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace." Helen Keller
"Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature”
Gerard de Nerval
