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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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 ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
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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Keys Pain Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
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
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga

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