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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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.
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Body Self Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga

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