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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

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
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
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
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
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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Blow Self Wind
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher

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