Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramana Maharshi

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

Ramana Maharshi

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Ramana Maharshi

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Ramana Maharshi

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

Ramana Maharshi

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Ramana Maharshi

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

Ramana Maharshi

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

Ramana Maharshi

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Ramana Maharshi

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Ramana Maharshi

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

Ramana Maharshi

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Ramana Maharshi

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

Terence McKenna

In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

Terence McKenna

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Taylor Schilling

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

Taylor Schilling

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

Vidya Balan

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

Russell Brand

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

Russell Brand

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

Tricia Helfer

I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

Sai Baba

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

Saint Augustine

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

Ziggy Marley

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

Wayne Dyer

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Wayne Dyer

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

Voltaire

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The authentic self is the soul made visable.

William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Wayne Coyne

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

Rod Stewart

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

Robin Roberts

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.

Robin McKinley

I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.