Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B.K.S. IYENGARAsanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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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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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.
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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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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in 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 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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