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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

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Life Thinking Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Flower Roots Tree

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