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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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Confusion Simplicity Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
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
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
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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Inspiring Success Yoga
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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