Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
B.K.S. IYENGARFirmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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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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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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