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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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 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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
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
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

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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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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