Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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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 study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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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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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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