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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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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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The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.
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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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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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A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body....Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills....
It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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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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I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.
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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.
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As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and... grace... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Born:
December 14, 1918
Died:
August 20, 2014
(aged 95)
Bio:
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, was the founder of the style of yoga known as "Iyengar Yoga" and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world.
Known for:
Light on Yoga (1968)
Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health (2001)
The tree of yoga (1988)
Aṣṭadaḷa yogamālā
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