Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
B.K.S. IYENGARPersistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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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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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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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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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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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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