Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
B.K.S. IYENGARChange leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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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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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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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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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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