The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
B.K.S. IYENGARMy Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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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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