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

B.K.S. Iyengar

While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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
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
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
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
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga

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