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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

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