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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
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
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga

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