Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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