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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
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
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain 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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace

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