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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
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
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
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

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