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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
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
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

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

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