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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Cutting Winning Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
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
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
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
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 is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
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
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
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom

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