Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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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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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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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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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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