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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar

In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
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
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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