Move from the known to the unknown.
B.K.S. IYENGAROur greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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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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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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