Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
B.K.S. IYENGARDuring inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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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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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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