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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
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
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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Long Odds Practice
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right

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