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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two

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