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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
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 good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine

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