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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
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
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
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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
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
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

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