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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
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
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
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
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
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
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
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love

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