The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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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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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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