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Action is movement with intelligence

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
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
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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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
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
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
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
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
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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know

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