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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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 don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring 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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
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
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind

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