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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

B.K.S. Iyengar

How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
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
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
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
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
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
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga

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