You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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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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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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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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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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