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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

B.K.S. Iyengar

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
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
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
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song 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

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