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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Doe Flower Water
One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.
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Inspiring Lying Spiritual
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak

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