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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

B.K.S. Iyengar

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

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