Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARTraining of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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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 teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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