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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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
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
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga

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