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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
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
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
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up

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