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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
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 don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga

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