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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

B.K.S. Iyengar

A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga

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