Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
B.K.S. IYENGARBreath is the king of mind.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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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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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 exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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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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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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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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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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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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