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How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?

B.K.S. Iyengar

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
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 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
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking

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