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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

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
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
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

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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