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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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 don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga

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