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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

B.K.S. Iyengar

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual 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
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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
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
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
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
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga
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

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