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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
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 allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga

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