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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
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

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

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