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.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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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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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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