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.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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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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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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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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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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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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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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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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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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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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