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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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 beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky

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