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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
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
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
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
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

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