People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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 uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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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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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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