Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
B.K.S. IYENGARIgnorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Yoga 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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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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