There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
B.K.S. IYENGARI think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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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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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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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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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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