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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

B.K.S. Iyengar

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Discipline Doubt Give Up
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Healthy Humanity Soul
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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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.
B.K.S. IYENGAR

Body Self 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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul 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
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know

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