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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
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
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

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