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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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Inspiring Mean Yoga
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
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
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
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
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Inspiring Past Yoga
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
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love

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