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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces

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