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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

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
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 exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
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
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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind

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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