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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
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
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Journey Self Yoga
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge

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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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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