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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga

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