It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe 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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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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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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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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