Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga 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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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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