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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
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
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
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
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
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
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga

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