When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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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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