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

B.K.S. Iyengar

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
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
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
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
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
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Giving Principle Student
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
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization

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