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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
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
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
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
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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

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