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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
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
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
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

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