The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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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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Without education, confidence does not come.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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