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.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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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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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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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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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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