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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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga

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