{"quotes":[{"text":"Despite an ever increasing diversity when it comes to yoga brands, there are only four major paths in yoga and they have the same end goal; enlightenment. The end goal can be likened to the top of a pyramid. Even though people may start climbing the pyramid from different sides, at the end they will reach the same goal and thusly achieve unity.","author":"Gudjon Bergmann","tags":["yoga","yoga-philosophy","yoga-practice","yoga"],"id":13792,"author_id":"Gudjon+Bergmann"},{"text":"When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["awakening","breath","breathe","breathing","breathing-in-awareness","conscious-breathing","dull","dull-mind","dullness","fog","foggy","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","lifestyle","lifestyle","mind","mind-power","path","unclear","unsolved-equations","wake","wake-up","wakefulness","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-philosophy","yoga-poses","yoga-postures","yoga-practice"],"id":16648,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["awareness","body","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","mind","pain","social-pain","spirit","spirituality","suffering","suffering-life","suffering-of-humanity","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-of-action","yoga-philosophy","yoga-postures","yoga-practice","yoga"],"id":55659,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["amit-ray-yoga","compassion","dignity","equality","global-peace","health","human-dignity","kindness","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-philosophy","yoga"],"id":59352,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Spirituality is not a religion or a trend—it is a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of awareness that combines the understanding of faith, body, mind, and soul, allowing us to live modern-day enlightened lives in small and big ways.","author":"Emma Mildon","tags":["body-mind-spirit","faith","lifestyle","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religious","spiritual","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spiritualism","spirituality","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-philosophy"],"id":59617,"author_id":"Emma+Mildon"},{"text":"Self-hatred is the inevitable byproduct of the culture of narcissism in which we all have been reared. We learn from day one how special and wonderful we are. Or conversely, and perhaps more pervasively, we do not learn this at all and instead are subjected to glorified views of others through the media whom we idealize and envy. At the root of it all are inappropriate expectations about life, about ourselves, and an overvaluation of self that breeds profound isolation.","author":"Melissa Grabau","tags":["food","self-hatred","yoga-philosophy"],"id":70439,"author_id":"Melissa+Grabau"},{"text":"Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul. Here, meanings of the words must come from the heart, from direct experience – dictionary meanings or static meanings have not much value. Meanings of the words vary depending on mind-set, time, location and culture. The words are made to expand the possibilities of the mind.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["contextual-language","dev-bhasha","dictionary-meanings","direct-experience","language","language-learning","language-of-soul","language-of-the-heart","language-of-the-universe","possibilities","possibilities-in-life","possibilities-of-the-mind","sanskrit","sanskrit-language","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-language","yoga-philosophy"],"id":122865,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["awareness","body","calmness","kindness","mind","spirit","suppleness","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-philosophy","yoga-poses","yoga-postures","yoga-practice","yoga","yoga-teachers"],"id":147447,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:1.\tRaja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation2.\tKarma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties3.\tHatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises4.\tJyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge5.\tBhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal GodThe purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["inspirational","meditation","neurotheology","patanjali","yoga","yoga-inspiration","yoga-philosophy","yoga","yoga-sutra"],"id":158924,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["karma","karma-yoga","karma-yoga-the-yoga-of-action","peace","peace-movement","peace-of-mind","peace-yoga","peacefulness","peacemaker","peacemaking","selfish-gene","service-of-others","yoga","yoga-in-action","yoga-inspiration","yoga-life","yoga-of-action","yoga-philosophy","yoga","yoga-teachers"],"id":171151,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}