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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love

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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