Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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