Action is movement with intelligence
B.K.S. IYENGARConfidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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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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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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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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