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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean 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
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

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