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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

B.K.S. Iyengar

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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