How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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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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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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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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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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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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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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