During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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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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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Healthy 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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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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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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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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