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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga

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