Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. IYENGARLife itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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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 body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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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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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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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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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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