Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
B.K.S. IYENGARIs it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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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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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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