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Yoga is a way of life it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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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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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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