After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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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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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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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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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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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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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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