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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
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
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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
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
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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Bird Practice Soul
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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Journey Mean Soul
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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Gates Soul Yoga

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