Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
B.K.S. IYENGARApproach each asana with freshness every day.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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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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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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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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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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