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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

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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 study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
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.
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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
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
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
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

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