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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
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
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
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
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
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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