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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

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
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
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

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