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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

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
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
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind

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.

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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.

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