How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
B.K.S. IYENGARIn your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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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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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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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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Our 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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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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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 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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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