Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time.

I love yoga.

I have a huge respect for yoga today.

For me, yoga is like a moving meditation, and I do believe in a mind-body connection.

I love yoga and the way it makes me feel.