True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
B.K.S. IYENGARNothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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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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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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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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