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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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 an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
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
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

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