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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

B.K.S. Iyengar

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga

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