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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education

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