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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi

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