I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
B.K.S. IYENGARTraining of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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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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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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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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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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