It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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