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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
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
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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

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