Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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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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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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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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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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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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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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