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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

B.K.S. Iyengar

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
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
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success

A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

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