Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Breath is the king of mind.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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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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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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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