Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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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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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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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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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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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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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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