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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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 I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
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
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 teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow 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
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Attention Desire Intelligent
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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Flower Roots Tree
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
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
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving

When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

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