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

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
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
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
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason

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

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