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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
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
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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise

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