The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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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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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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