Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
B.K.S. IYENGARA stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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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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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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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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