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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

B.K.S. Iyengar

We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
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
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga

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