Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

The meditative, calm sound is a reflection of my personality. I've got a silly and a crazy side, but it makes sense the music would come across that way. I do yoga every day and try to keep a sense of peace and calm in my life. I don't have a lot of frantic energy.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

When you are balancing perfectly in a tree pose, everything is easy; your breath is deep and relaxed, and your muscles are working for you just as you'd like. It's pure and simple. Efficient. When you are having a great day, the same things occur. Your breathing is relaxed, your body is working harmoniously with your mind; everything just feels easier because you are in a state of balance.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Yoga is an art and science of living.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

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

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

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.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.

I feel very peaceful.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.

I love yoga.

Yoga puts me in a place that is a little bit less about doing and more about being, which enables me, in fact, to do more.

I love yoga, but the namaste thing only takes you so far.

Yoga really destresses me.

For every moment of concentration there is an equal moment of relaxation.