Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is never too late in life to practice yoga
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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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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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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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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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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The 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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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