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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

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