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

B.K.S. Iyengar

During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
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
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
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
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Awareness Moving Way
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
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
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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Awareness Rays Sun
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision

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

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