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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

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
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
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
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
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
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
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
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
The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asana Body Brain
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
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

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