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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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.
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Mistake Trying Way
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
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.
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Flower Yield Yoga
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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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Artist Inspiring Practice
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky

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