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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!

B.K.S. Iyengar

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Heart Life Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
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
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind

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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