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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
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
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

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