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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

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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
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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Fire Flames Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Practice Self Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul

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