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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

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
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

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