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

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Practice Understanding Yesterday
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
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
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
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
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
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga

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