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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

B.K.S. Iyengar

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
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
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
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
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Body Health Mind Soul
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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Emotional Intellectual Soul
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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