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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress

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