On Mastery

We live in a "quick-fix" society. We want everything in a flash. ... The path of mastery rises above the world of the "quick-fix." Mastery of your mind, body and character, just like mastery of any other activity, requires discipline, persistence and hard work. But the results will change every element of your life and you will undersand that there truly is no more noble cause than strenghtening yourself.
Robin Sharma

Yoga

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S Iyengar

Yoga is the fountain of youth.  You're only as young as your spine is flexible. 

Bob Harper

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

Bhagavad Gita

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

Bhagavad Gita

You cannot do yoga.  Yoga is your natural state.  What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. 

Sharon Gannon

By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita

Do your practice and all is coming.
Sri K Patthabi Jois

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. David Williams

Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked Desikashar

Human unhappiness results from mankind's acceptance of the lowest conditions of our minds. By the practice of Yoga, all such conditioning can be overcome.
Patanjali Yoga Sutras

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.  

Amy Weintraub

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. 

Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois


By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. 

Phillip Moffitt


Yoga is 99% practice and 1% knowledge.  

Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

The yogi is deemed greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom or of the path of action; be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi.

Bhagavad Gita

Sitting (in a comfortable position) and concentrating the mind on a single object, controlling the thoughts and the activities of the senses, let the yogi practice meditation for self-purification.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Bhagavad Gita

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. 

Carol Krucoff

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
Yoga sutras of Patanjali

Discipline Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 
Aristotle

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Critias of Athen

It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on.  "When you' have finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman


The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Here is the great secret: Just as high awareness of the subtle truth is gained through virtuous conduct and sustaining disciplines, so also is it maintained through these things. Highly evolved beings know and respect the truth of this.
Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching