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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student

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