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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

B.K.S. Iyengar

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga

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