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Without education, confidence does not come.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

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