If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
B.K.S. IYENGARClassics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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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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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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