Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
B.K.S. IYENGAREverybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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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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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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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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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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