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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys 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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
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
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga

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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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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