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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Compassion Inspiring Teacher
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace

Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

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