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Do not live in the future, only the present is real
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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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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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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.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar