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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life Yoga
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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