30 YOGA QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOU
Beauty is everywhere; it requires us only to notice it. Some of the most beautiful moments come from opening a real book in your favorite chair with a gentle cup of tea.
Yoga teachers stand on the shoulders of writers from ages past to inspire a conversation in the classroom. A single word can light the fire for those of us charged with holding space for transformation of mind body and spirit.
Below are some beautiful quotes that have inspired me through the years. In a world that moves at lightning speed, take a moment to slow down and savor the images and ideas so beautifully put.
Becky
1. Peace is this moment without judgment. That is all. This moment in the Heart-space where everything is welcome.~Dorothy Hunt
2. Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.— Ekhart Tolle
3. Your self-love is a medicine for the earth. ~ Yung Pueblo
4. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha
5. Do not try to save the world or do anything grandiose.Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently,until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then, will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.- Martha Postlewaite
6. Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ~ Linda Hogan
7. Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive. ~ Panache Desai
8. I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford
9. We must teach ourselves, actively remind ourselves, what being wild means. We must make room for it and invite it back. ~Brian Meier, Awaken the Bear.
10. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.~Mozart
11. Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is an adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius
12. It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth. ~Thomas Moore
13. I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ~ Sylvia Plath
14. Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness.~ Stephen Buhner
15. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.~ Carl Jung
16. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. ~Pema Chodron
17. Empty yourself and let the universe fill you. ~ Yogi Tea
18. You have walked through fire, survived floods and have triumphed over demons- remember this the next time you doubt your own power. Jung Pueblo
19. The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.~ Mary Davis
20. When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.~ Mary Oliver
21. We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide an example for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.~ James Hollis
22. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.~ Emerson
23. “Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better”-Albert Einstein
24. If bein’ afraid is a crime, we’ll hang side by side. ~ Paul Westerberg
25. What am I asking of my beloved that I need to do for myself? – James Hollis
26. What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. ~Haruki Murakami
27. Poetry is a language against which you have no defenses. ~David Whyte.
28. Once you realize this floating life is the perfect mirage of change, it’s breathtaking – this wild joy at wandering boundless and free. ~Han Shan
29. God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare-up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.~Rilke
30. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.~ Marianne Williamson