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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

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