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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light 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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
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
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
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud

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