Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
B.K.S. IYENGARTo be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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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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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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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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