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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
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
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring

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