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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

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Discipline Doubt Give Up
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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 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 is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills

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