Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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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 leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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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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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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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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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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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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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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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