Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
B.K.S. IYENGARAny action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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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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Be inspired but not proud.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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