The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
B.K.S. IYENGARYou have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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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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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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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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