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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
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
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
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Asana Body Progress
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
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
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Brave Choices Decision

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