How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARNothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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