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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
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
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
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
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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