Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. IYENGARAn intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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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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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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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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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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