We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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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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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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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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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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