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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
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
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
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.
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Bird Practice Soul
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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 aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga

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