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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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 don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body 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

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