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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Challenges Mind Weak
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
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
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
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
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

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