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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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 aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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

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