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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
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
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga

Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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