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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
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 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
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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
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
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 often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
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
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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