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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
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
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

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