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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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

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