How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARWe have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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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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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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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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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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