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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

B.K.S. Iyengar

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Easier Next Willpower
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Inspiring Light Shining
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Humility Love Yoga
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Asana Body Brain
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Brain Mind Sake
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Mean Sleep Space
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Late Practice Yoga

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