Action is movement with intelligence
B.K.S. IYENGARYou must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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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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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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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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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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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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