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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

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Achieve Doubt Mind
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga

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