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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Easier Next Willpower
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
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
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

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