Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
B.K.S. IYENGARFirmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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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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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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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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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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