The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.
You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
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