Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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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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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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