Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. IYENGARWhy think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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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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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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