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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past 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
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul

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