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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

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
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 flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light

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