In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou 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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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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 teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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