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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

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
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
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
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
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

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