The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
B.K.S. IYENGARWillpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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