It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality. Love is energy. Love is power. Love is a strength. Love is a totality. Love has no fear and no vengeance. Love has every answer.” — Yogi Bhajan Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. The museum was also the venue for his signings, discussions, and sports-related workshops. The learning center aimed to teach values like sportsmanship and dedication. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. ― Sri Chinmoy Many yoga classes begin with positive mantras and may even end with uplifting quotes about mindfulness, or positivity. Everyone can use a little motivation when it comes to yoga. I hope you enjoy these yoga quotes.The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union. Remember the emphasis on the heart. The mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.

Pranayama Pranayama are breathing exercises developed by the ancient yogis for purification. Prana translates into “life force energy” and Yama translates into “control or mastery of”. Thus, Pranyama is used to control, cultivate, and modify the Prana in the body. Prana is taken in through the air we breathe, and since the pranayama exercises increase the amount of air we take in, they also increase our intake of Prana. For all pranayama (except Kapalabhati), the breath is slow and steady, breathed in and out of the nose and down into the belly. Always sit with a straight spine and a relaxed body. While you are practicing pranayama, let go of any thoughts by focusing on the breathing involved with the pranayama. A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet. ― Pema Chodron Danger is When you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.” — Yogi BhajanI hope you enjoyed these Yogi Bhajan quotes. May they bring love, joy, peace, and happiness into your life! Take note of those that reach deep within you and speak unspoken words to the heart. If you’d like, jot them down in a journal for future reference in your time of need.

In MacNeice’s best work, the ingeniousness and inevitable failure of that reaching indicates the depth of the longing. He is a superb love poet, for instance, yet his love poems often foreground their own ephemerality, like ice sculptures in the summertime. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. Yogi Berra lounges on one of the gifts he received during ‘Yogi Berra Day’ prior to a game at Yankee Stadium in 1959. Photograph: Olen Collection/Diamond Images/Getty Images

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I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five. And it’s not just his family who testify to his greatness. “In the film, we were fortunate enough to interview so many incredible people,” says Mullin, who was particularly moved by one expert’s takeaway: “John Thorn is the official MLB historian and we have him on record … saying Yogi’s the greatest catcher who ever played the game.” The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else. ― Pema Chodron Poetry, philosophy, history, and movies are all topics I love writing about! However, my true passion is in traveling, photography, and finding common ground to which everyone from different cultures can relate.

You must, in your own mind, understand that you are the keeper of your own grace, your own character, your own commitment, your own standard.” — Yogi Bhajan Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. — B. K. S. IyengarIf you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.” — Yogi Bhajan Warm-up Sequences Use these sequences of simple stretches to warm up prior to any of the pose sequences. In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.