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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

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