The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGARBreath is the king of mind.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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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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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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