The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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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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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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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