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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Body Eye Two
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

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