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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
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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Attitude Skills Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga

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