The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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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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