Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. IYENGARHealthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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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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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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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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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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