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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

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
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
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
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
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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 the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga

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