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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

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
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Celebration Dies Lively
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth 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
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
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Humility Love Yoga
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
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

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