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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
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
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul 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
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
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
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
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
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 allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

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