Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
B.K.S. IYENGARHappy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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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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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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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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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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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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