The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
B.K.S. IYENGARPractice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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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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