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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

B.K.S. Iyengar

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
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
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames 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
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
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
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
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

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