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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga

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