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A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head

B.K.S. Iyengar

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Garden Weed Yoga
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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Body Cells Yogi
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Greed Letting Go Yoga
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga

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