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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching

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