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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body 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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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 highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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

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