I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
B.K.S. IYENGARWe often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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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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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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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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