People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
B.K.S. IYENGARThere is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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