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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

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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

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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