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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Balance Body Foundation
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
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless 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
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
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
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
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
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
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

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