An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
B.K.S. IYENGARIf 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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Be inspired but not proud.
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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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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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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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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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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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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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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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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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