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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

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
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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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga

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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