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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

B.K.S. Iyengar

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
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

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

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