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.
B.K.S. IYENGARTo be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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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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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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