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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
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
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving

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