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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine

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