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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
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
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga

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