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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind

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