A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
B.K.S. IYENGARLack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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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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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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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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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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