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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

B.K.S. Iyengar

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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

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