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.
B.K.S. IYENGARWillpower 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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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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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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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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