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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

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
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
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
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
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga

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