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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
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
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind

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