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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind

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