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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
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.
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Mind Self Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga

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