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Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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 a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love

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