YOGA

“My body is my temple and asanas are my prayers.”
BKS Iyengar

“True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.”
— Aadil Palkhivala

The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understanding so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.
— Rod Stryker

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend—it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.
— Rolf Gates

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
— T.K.V. Desikachar

The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.
— Rachel Brathen

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda

Three mantras you should never say: (1) I don’t know. (2) I’m not ready. (3) I can’t do it.
— Yogi Bhajan

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. 
— Thich Nhat Hanh