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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

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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 rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
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
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind

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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