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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

B.K.S. Iyengar

A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
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
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
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
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness 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 physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open

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