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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
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
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga

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