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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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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine spirit which lives through the body.
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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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When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
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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 back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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B. K. S. Iyengar
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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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