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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

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
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
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
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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May Mind World
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Heart Life 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
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
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
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 supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey

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