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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
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
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
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose

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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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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