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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
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
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline 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
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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