The pose begins when you want to leave it.
B.K.S. IYENGARIt is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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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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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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