All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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We 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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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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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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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