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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
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
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.

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