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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

B.K.S. Iyengar

In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
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
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
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

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