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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

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
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
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know

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