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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts

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