YOGA QUOTES V
quotations about yoga
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.
ANNIE WOOD BESANT
Introduction to Yoga
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
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