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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important 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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
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
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self 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
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Inspiring Keys Yoga
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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Accomplish Crazy Passionate
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
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
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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve

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