Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
B.K.S. IYENGAR
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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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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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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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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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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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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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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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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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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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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