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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Late Practice Yoga
Move from the known to the unknown.
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Moving Shack Unknown Worlds
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
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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Body Challenges Mind Weak
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
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
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Disappointment Inspiring Practice
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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