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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Asana Challenges Gains
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together

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