In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
B.K.S. IYENGARYou have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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