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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

We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
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
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self

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