Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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