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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
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
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
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
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
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

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