Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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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 conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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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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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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