The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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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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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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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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