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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

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