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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
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 beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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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Mind Self Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul

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