It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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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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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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