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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring 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 light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special 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
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

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