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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality

If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.

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