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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain

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