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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

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