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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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Discrimination Men Real
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
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
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
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga

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