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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
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
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring 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
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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