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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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
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 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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two

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