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. IYENGARAny action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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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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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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