Is 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.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe 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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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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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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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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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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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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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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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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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