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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

B.K.S. Iyengar

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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