Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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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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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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