Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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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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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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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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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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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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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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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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