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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga

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