Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
B.K.S. IYENGARKnow your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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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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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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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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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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