Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARIn whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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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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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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