We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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