The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
B.K.S. IYENGARAs breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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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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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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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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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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