When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
B.K.S. IYENGARAnything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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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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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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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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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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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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