Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
B.K.S. IYENGARHatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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My 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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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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