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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity 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
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
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
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
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul

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