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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

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