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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos 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
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
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
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
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People

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