Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
B.K.S. IYENGARHard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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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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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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