How Yoga Works Quotes

“Everything is a reflection of the condition of your own heart ... And so looking at the world is like looking in a funny kind of mirror”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“Is this flesh - born only to die; or is it pure and loving light?”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“It doesn't matter that we are inside a jail. Everyone is inside a jail. We need to get out of the bigger jail: this entire life, this life that always leads to death and ruin.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“If we do something just to help ourselves, it will never work. You can never really put effort into a thing if it's only for yourself. It has to be for something bigger.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“It takes so much courage just to start”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“The most precious things in the world have no value to the world.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“Are they dead, and gone forever; or do they stand at your side, waiting to be seen, waiting until you learn to see them, be with them, be them?”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“the door to my cell. He looked down at me with those red”
― Geshe Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“Your practice must be done correctly,
For then a firm foundation is laid.”
― Geshe Michael Roach, How Yoga Works

“You see, with yoga as we’ve talked about it, this regular modest daily practice causes very profound changes at the level of the channels and the inner winds. And that has a matching effect on the thoughts and attitudes themselves. Any person who just keeps this up steadily, a little each day, just naturally begins to avoid these bad habits—because these simply don’t fit any more into who they are. And then one day they just naturally drop the habit completely: no big announcements or resolutions. They may not even notice.”
― Michael Roach, How Yoga Works