Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
B.K.S. IYENGARHow can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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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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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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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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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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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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