One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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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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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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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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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Breath is the king of mind.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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