Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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.
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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.
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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