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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

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