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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
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
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
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!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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