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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

B.K.S. Iyengar

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
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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Breath Kings Mind
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

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