Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
B.K.S. IYENGARDo 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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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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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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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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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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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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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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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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