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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
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
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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

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