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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

B.K.S. Iyengar

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Blood Cells Practice
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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Practice Self Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins

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