The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
B.K.S. IYENGARIf you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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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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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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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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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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