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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

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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind

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

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