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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

B.K.S. Iyengar

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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

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