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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring

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