People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
B.K.S. IYENGARSavasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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