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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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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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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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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.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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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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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. . . .
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar