Yoga Sutra Quotes

• I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.

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  Mark T Bertolini

  Pain   Yoga   Practice  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

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  Patanjali

  Yoga   Practice   Way  

  1265

• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

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  Karan Bajaj

  Beautiful   Yoga   Journey  

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  670

• 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.

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  Terence McKenna

  Yoga   Light   Goal  

  1562

• The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

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  Deepak Chopra

  Dream   Yoga   Sleep  

  3141

• I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

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  Russell Simmons

  Yoga   Book   Two  

  1149

• It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

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  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual   Yoga   Reading  

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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