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.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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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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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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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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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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