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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
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
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind

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