Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

If yoga is anything, I guess it is showing up to the yoga centre and doing it. Or, perhaps not even that – just showing up to yourself, and doing your asanas at home.

I was contemplating yoga celebrity the other day (not bitching) and I came across this little gem.

A friend from the yoga centre who has been helping me find yoga quotes for the blog dug this one out for me after my last post.

“Yoga is the cessation of mind”
– Some Yoga wisdom from Patanjali

I know very little of Lao Tse, but I recognise something of value in this small yogic morsel.

“Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. ”

“Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought… ”
– Another yoga wisdom gem from an unknown writer…

This is bad news for someone who has started a blog that promises to give you something to think about in yoga!

“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure”.
– yoga wisdom from Rainier Maria Rilke.

“He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear”.
– From Yoga Isa Upanishad

“All things first originate in the mind. Things and events depend heavily on motivation” – Some yogic wisdom from The Dalai Lama I guess it’s true – I have to think about murdering my neighbours who drink excessively and argue at 3am, before I actually murder them…. Yours, Yoga Genie Chief Bloggist, Yoga Whatever…