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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past 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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
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
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Body Important Soul
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Life Reality Yoga

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