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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

B.K.S. Iyengar

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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 light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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Life Thinking Yoga

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

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