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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May 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
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
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
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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